My drives are showing up in USB safety remove

[Drake Jest]

My hard drives are showing up in USB safety remove, at first i didnt mind it but when i accidentally safety remove my game drive instead of the usb stick, i finally decided to fix it. So how do i fix this?

 

 

I am running windows 11

[Levent]

Did you enable hot swap in bios?

[Drake Jest]

23 minutes ago, Levent said:

Did you enable hot swap in bios?

My bios are in default, but i will check my bios for that setting

 

[Drake Jest]

42 minutes ago, Levent said:

Did you enable hot swap in bios?

So yes it was indeed enabled in bios, so i disable all of them. but i got this ghost drive (F:) i have no usb plugged in

 

[Levent]

6 minutes ago, JakeQuinn said:

So yes it was indeed enabled in bios, so i disable all of them. but i got this ghost drive (F:) i have no usb plugged in

 

Do you have a card reader on your case?

[Drake Jest]

23 minutes ago, Levent said:

Do you have a card reader on your case?

Ahh you are a genius sir! all of your advices were spot on, I plugged in an sd card to the card reader slot it drive F lit up.

 

Will the greyed out drive always be there when nothing is plugged in ?

 

[Levent]

4 minutes ago, JakeQuinn said:

Ahh you are a genius sir! all of your advices were spot on, I plugged in an sd card to the card reader slot it drive F lit up.

 

Will the greyed out drive always be there when nothing is plugged in ?

 

Yup, IIRC it only shows when you have this option unticked. In any case, you can always disable viewing of hidden files and that should get rid of it.

[Kilrah]

It's the option further up with the 2 radio boxes to hide hidden files, folders and drives

[Drake Jest]

12 minutes ago, Levent said:

Yup, IIRC it only shows when you have this option unticked. In any case, you can always disable viewing of hidden files and that should get rid of it.

 

ahh i see, its alright i like having hidden folder shown ,

 

last problem, i had windows 10 before and the usb icon on the tray does not show up if there is no usb devices plugged in

 

 

so am i jjust stuck with this now in windows 11?

[Kilrah]

You can choose what icons to always see in the taskbar preferences also on Win11.

[Drake Jest]

51 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

You can choose what icons to always see in the taskbar preferences also on Win11.

wait really ? how do i navigate to this taskbar prefence? the only thing i see is the overflow icons, i want to clean up the usb eject in the hidden icons tab

[Kilrah]

Ah, if you expand the tab yes it's always going to be there as long as there's a "removable" device connected, but that's no different than in 10 AFAIK.

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4 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Ah, if you expand the tab yes it's always going to be there as long as there's a "removable" device connected, but that's no different than in 10 AFAIK.

but there is no removable device connected .  as you can see in this image.

 

6 hours ago, JakeQuinn said:

 

 

its just a "..." there are no printers connected also as of the moment, just my keyboard and mouse , its weird that it counts that under here 

[Kilrah]

It's likely counting the empty card reader as one

[Drake Jest]

32 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

It's likely counting the empty card reader as one

i did try to hide the hidden folder inorder to hide the drive but the icon is still there. I guess i just have to get used to that icon, its just i am used to a clean icon tray, with only my antivirus being there

 

Anyway, Thank you very much for your time helping me, It is greatly appreciated