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New Sata 200 gig found in the safely removed hardwaretaskbar

Apr 14, 2005 7:14AM PDT

I just recently installed my 200 gig sata drive into my computer and everything is working fine, but the safely remove hardware thing comes up in the task bar saying if i should safely remove my harddrive.... this is not right.

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It's right.
Apr 14, 2005 7:47AM PDT

SATA drives can be ... removeables.

Bob

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About getting rid of the safely remove hardware
Apr 14, 2005 8:55AM PDT

is there any way i can get rid of the safely remove hardware thing in the task bar just because im a perfectionist.

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In XP you can configure that to hide.
Apr 14, 2005 9:17AM PDT
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I'll give it a read.
Apr 14, 2005 9:56AM PDT

Thanks for your help.