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    Nvidia SATA controller

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by ravenmorpheus, Feb 15, 2008.

  1. ravenmorpheus

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    Hi there

    Just a quick question that has been bugging me for weeks - when I install the latest Nvidia SATA HDD controller my internal HDD is showing up in the Safely Remove Hardware list as though it is a USB drive, which it's not obviously as it's my internal HDD.

    This happens in both Vista and XP.

    Could someone tell me why this is happening and how I go about solving it, I've done a google search adn drawn a blank and I've had a look on the Nvidia site/forum but no-one there seems to be able to help?

    Thanks in advance for any help/advice :)
     
    ravenmorpheus, Feb 15, 2008
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    Fade To Black The Bad Ass

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    No need to solve it, that's the way it is, nothing wrong about it. This is how you know the nVidia drivers are working, instead of the default ones. nVidia drivers need a different interface to install (selecting AHCI in the BIOS on my desktop helped installing them, instead of the normal IDE) and they are a little better than the default Microsoft ones. Don't think there is a problem, when there isn't. Just hide that icon and you'll be fine.
     
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    They is reg tweak that you can do remove the option
     
    andyasselin, Feb 15, 2008
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    To remove what?
     
    Fade To Black, Feb 16, 2008
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    Oh ok, I thought it had ballsed up the driver install somehow. Cool, I'll reinstall them now I know it isn't a problem. Thanks :)
     
    ravenmorpheus, Feb 16, 2008
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    You're welcome.
     
    Fade To Black, Feb 16, 2008
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    The Nvidia drivers listed you hard disk as remoable device
     
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    I found a fix for it.

    Its because they are SATA drives. (atleast for me they are.) Sata are actually removable devices, so we have to tell windows not to allow them to be removable.

    Go here in the registry:
    HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nvata - 32bit
    HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nvata64 - 64bit

    and create a DWORD value called DisableRemovable with value 1.

    Restart and you're good to go!
     
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    Cool I'll give that a go. Thanks :)
     
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    SATA drives are able to hot-swap, which is great, thus making them removable and allowing them to appear there, but it's not a big deal anyway.
     
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    Yeah I knew they were hot swappable, it's just a bit disconcerting when something like that appears and your not expecting it to, the first time I noticed it was when I updated my Nvidia drivers a couple of months ago.

    There wasn't anything anywhere in the files or on the dl page that said the HDD would show up in the safely remove hardware window. Mind you there isn't any documentation afaik to tell you what installing the nvidia nforce drivers actually does.
     
    ravenmorpheus, Feb 16, 2008
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