hy everyone my problem is that i installed windows xp on an asus k8n board on a new sata hitachi 80gb hard drive everithing was fine but when windows starts windows thinks my new hard drive is a removable hard disk it has a small icon in the buttom left corner of the screen that says safely remove hardware refuring to the hitachi hard drive even though the drivers say its a serial ata hard drive if anyone can tell me how to get windows to recognise my hard drive as a serial hdd would be helpfull.

thanks.

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QUOTE(zues @ Jul 22 2005, 03:20 PM)hy everyone my problem is that i installed windows xp  on an asus k8n board on a new sata hitachi 80gb hard drive everithing was fine but when windows starts windows thinks my new hard drive is a removable  hard disk it has a small icon in the buttom left corner of the screen that says safely remove hardware refuring to the hitachi hard drive even though the drivers say its a serial ata hard drive if anyone can tell me how to get windows to recognise my hard drive as a serial hdd would be helpfull.

thanks.
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On certain motherboards, the K8N is no exception, depnding on which port you plug the sata into, Windows will recognize it as swappable. I know on my Gigabyte k8ns utlra I am using the Nforce 3 slots, and I have no icon in windows. But according to the documentation if I change to the Silicon chip it will be seen as swappable.

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Hey, I never noticed that... I can remove my SATA HDD /tongue.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tongue.gif' /> I have the same HDD as you with a K8N Neo2 Platinum and it looks normal if I have it too.

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