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SSD showing as removable drive

Hello!

I recently built a new PC with two M.2 drives and a SATA drive. My problem is that the SATA drive now shows as a removable drive in Windows.

I read something about going into Device Manager and make some changes, but it looks different on my PC, like it actually thinks it IS a removable drive so I can't follow the guide.

If anyone knows how to fix this, I'd really appreciate it.

 

By the way, I'm swedish so posting screenshots would probably not help.

/Junior

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It's not really a problem tbh.

Most systems these days support SATA hot-swap. Which means you can connect and disconnect sata devices as you please, like you can do with USB.

 

So you can remove the sata drive during use, which means it's removable and is the reason why you have that option.

 

It's not a bug, it's a feature :)

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I have seen some motherboards with HOTSWAP ONLY SATA ports. Check your motherboards manual and see if there's any on your board.

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37 minutes ago, samcool55 said:

It's not a bug, it's a feature :)

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My motherboard's UEFI can set each of the 10 onboard SATA ports as hot swap.  When configured that way, drives connected to those ports show up under  the remove hardware menu (where you go to remove usb devices).

 

I have almost all my SATA ports set for hot swap enabled, except for port 0 which has my primary boot drive.

 

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My board = ASRock Z97 Extreme6

 

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Hello again!

My motherboard: Aorus X570 Ultra

SSD: Samsung 850-Series EVO 1TB

 

I'll have a look at the hot swap thing.

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So apparently Gigabyte/Aorus calls it "Hot Plug". I disabled it and now it's not a removable drive in Windows anymore.

Thanks a lot, guys :)

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