Safely Remove >> My Hard Drive ??
I have a laptop running Vista Home, it has a Hitachi SCSI hard drive, unlike other machines ive used when i use the safely remove on the taskbar to say unplug a USB flash drive, i also see the choice to "safely remove" the hard drive that the operating system is on... Im thinking you would never want to do this, is there a way to disable it appearing in the list of drives that you can choose to "safely remove" to avoid accidentally picking this and causing a system crash.. Or is there some reason why you would want to be able to do this? Many thanks experts..
While it's possible, I suspect your system does not have a SCSI drive => it most likely has a SATA drive. When SATA drives are running in AHCI mode, they can be hot-swapped; and are thus shown as "safely removeable". I suspect, however, that the system will, as leew noted, tell you the device is busy and can't be removed if you try it.
It won't "hurt" anything to try it => if it actually allows it, you'll simply have to power off and then reboot the system.
It won't "hurt" anything to try it => if it actually allows it, you'll simply have to power off and then reboot the system.
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Thanks for the comments, Garycase, your right it says its in use and cant stop etc, the drive is a Hitachi HTS541616J9S according to the safely remove message. Im guessing there is no way to stop it appearing in the choices of things to remove?
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Gary thanks.. good work !
Isn't that what I said? This should have been a split.
"If the device is in use, it should tell you it cannot remove the drive."
"If the device is in use, it should tell you it cannot remove the drive."
If the device is in use, it should tell you it cannot remove the drive.