Question about "safely remove hardware" icon

Hello, I recently installed Vista Ultimate, so I'm pretty new to it.
My boot drive is SATA(non raid) with an IDE secondary disk.

Vista lives in a logical drive on the SATA disk; in addition there
is a primary partition and two other logical data partitions.

I walked away from the pc and returned in about an hour.
There was the "safely remove hardware" icon in the systray.

I opened it up to get the details, and it wanted to "remove" the other
partitions on the sata drive. Huh? What's it talking about?

Any idea what that's about? Earlier I had run Windows update
and it offered the Nvidia SATA driver as an option which installed and
is working fine. COuld this be related?

Thanks,
Dave

dave xnet;513242 Wrote:
> Hello, I recently installed Vista Ultimate, so I'm pretty new to it. My
> boot drive is SATA(non raid) with an IDE secondary disk.
>
> Vista lives in a logical drive on the SATA disk; in addition there is a
> primary partition and two other logical data partitions.
>
> I walked away from the pc and returned in about an hour. There was the
> "safely remove hardware" icon in the systray.
>
> I opened it up to get the details, and it wanted to "remove" the other
> partitions on the sata drive. Huh? What's it talking about?
>
> Any idea what that's about? Earlier I had run Windows update and it
> offered the Nvidia SATA driver as an option which installed and is
> working fine. COuld this be related?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave

Yes, they are related.

SATA is supposed to be hot-swap capable. It reasonable to believe that
the new drivers have been updated to reflect this capability.

My three SATA drives are spanned in a JBOD configuration, thus giving
me only one drive in Explorer. The Safely Remove Hardware icon, oddly
enough, gives me three "Safely remove NVIDIA nforce RAID device"
entries.

You can ignore this, but just be careful that you don't accidentally
click the wrong option when using "Safely Remove Hardware" to remove a
USB Drive or some other device.


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Hi Dave,

As has been pointed out by several people, myself included, throughout these
newsgroups, you should not download and install updates from Microsoft for
the hardware on your machine. You should obtain these updates directly from
the website of the hardware manufacturer. An exception to this rule is for
hardware manufactured by Microsoft themselves. Even so, there are some
drivers which can be downloaded from the manufacturer but are best installed
as part of a reinstallation. These include chipset drivers and storage
drivers.
Dwarf


"dave xnet" wrote:

> Hello, I recently installed Vista Ultimate, so I'm pretty new to it.
> My boot drive is SATA(non raid) with an IDE secondary disk.
>
> Vista lives in a logical drive on the SATA disk; in addition there
> is a primary partition and two other logical data partitions.
>
> I walked away from the pc and returned in about an hour.
> There was the "safely remove hardware" icon in the systray.
>
> I opened it up to get the details, and it wanted to "remove" the other
> partitions on the sata drive. Huh? What's it talking about?
>
> Any idea what that's about? Earlier I had run Windows update
> and it offered the Nvidia SATA driver as an option which installed and
> is working fine. COuld this be related?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>

On Nov 14, 7:47 am, Dwarf <Dw...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>
> As has been pointed out by several people, myself included, throughout these
> newsgroups, you should not download and install updates from Microsoft for
> the hardware on your machine. You should obtain these updates directly from
> the website of the hardware manufacturer. An exception to this rule is for
> hardware manufactured by Microsoft themselves. Even so, there are some
> drivers which can be downloaded from the manufacturer but are best installed
> as part of a reinstallation. These include chipset drivers and storage
> drivers.
> Dwarf
>
> "dave xnet" wrote:
> > Hello, I recently installed Vista Ultimate, so I'm pretty new to it.
> > My boot drive is SATA(non raid) with an IDE secondary disk.
>
> > Vista lives in a logical drive on the SATA disk; in addition there
> > is a primary partition and two other logical data partitions.
>
> > I walked away from the pc and returned in about an hour.
> > There was the "safely remove hardware" icon in the systray.
>
> > I opened it up to get the details, and it wanted to "remove" the other
> > partitions on the sata drive. Huh? What's it talking about?
>
> > Any idea what that's about? Earlier I had run Windows update
> > and it offered the Nvidia SATA driver as an option which installed and
> > is working fine. COuld this be related?
>
> > Thanks,
> > Dave

Thanks for the info - I decided to try the driver bacause I'd never
seen it before.
When ever I've visited Nvidia, I've only found chipset and graphics
drivers.

I have the chipset installed, but I've never seen any mention about
whether it does anything
for non-raid SATA. Now that I've got this new driver, (file is
nvstor32.sys),
I've got a new tab in the device manager, and better performance.

Dave

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:41:32 -0800 (PST), davexnet01@yahoo.com wrote:

<snip>
>> > I walked away from the pc and returned in about an hour.
>> > There was the "safely remove hardware" icon in the systray.
>>
>> > I opened it up to get the details, and it wanted to "remove" the other
>> > partitions on the sata drive. Huh? What's it talking about?
>>
>> > Any idea what that's about? Earlier I had run Windows update
>> > and it offered the Nvidia SATA driver as an option which installed and
>> > is working fine. COuld this be related?
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> > Dave
>
<snip>
Here's the solution if you want to disable Nvidia SATA hot swap
and it's icon:
http://www.trilithium.com/johan/2006...move-hardware/


Dave