Eject SSD
 

Hi all,

I've just rebuilt my desktop which has a M4 SSD installed. I installed Windows 8 from scratch and then updated to 8.1 - before I had Windows 7 and did an in-place upgrade to 8 and the 8.1.

I can now see in the notification area / system tray a "safely remove hardware" icon - where I can eject the OS SSD drive. It dosn't do anything (or course) but I'd like to remove the icon all the same.

Any ideas?

I think before when it was W7 -> Win 8 > Win 8.1 is was using a Marvell driver but now 8.1 has it's own driver - that may be the issue but I don't want to install an older driver just to fix that.

Ideas anybody?

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In Win 7 you can right click the task bar > properties > click the customize button for notification area and shut a bunch of stuff off from showing in there, perhaps win 8 is the same?

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Well yeah you can do that, but I want to keep the option shown but just remove the SSD from the list of devices you can eject.

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http://www.overclock.net/t/974023/fi...emove-hardware
Not sure if that is applicable to Win8

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Update your chipset driver (Look on Intel website)

This should be what you need but please double check as I don't know your configuration: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Det...adType=Drivers

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Updated the Intel chipset - no change - still there.

And I don't have the msahci hive in my registry.

My board is a Asus P6X58D Premium and I have a Crucial M4 connected to one of the ports on the 6Gb Marvell 9128 controller. There are no Asus supplied drivers for this - it's using the native W8.1 "Microsoft Strange Spaces Controller".

I was going to try the Win7 Marvell 9128 controller but I'm not sure it's compatible.

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Mine has 4 of my HDDs there to disconnect. They're all clearly labeled so I just live with it

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But it wasn't like that before I rebuilt it....I could - but my OCD says "disconnect me - go on!!!!" :D

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well Sata is hot swap and anything with a cache needs it flushing before hotswap so it is a feature imo

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http://www.station-drivers.com/index...ers/47-marvell - might be worth a try - NB. these are often grabbed from whichever maker releases the latest, so compatibility not always certain.

If the Marvell does end up on its own drivers, then there may be an option to disable removal in device manager

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This is down to the drives being set as AHCI in the BIOS....

Backup your registry and then do the following;

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SYSTEM\ CurrentControlSet\ services\ msahci
• and create a new KEY called "Controller0"
• inside Controller0, create a new KEY called "Channel0"
• Now inside Channel0, create a new DWORD called "TreatAsInternalPort"
• set this value to "1"
• (this sets SATA port 0 (Drive C)to no longer show up in "Safely Remove Hardware")

then for the second drive...

• Go back into the Controller0 folder.
• inside Controller0, create a new KEY called "Channel1"
• Now inside Channel1, create a new DWORD called "TreatAsInternalPort"
• set this value to "1"
• (this sets SATA port 1 (Drive D)to no longer show up in "Safely Remove Hardware")

and repeat for all HDDs that appear if you do not want them to, incrementing the controller and channel as per your setup. remember to start with '0' as drive C:

Reboot.

job done.

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good post there mate where did you pluck that from?

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the problem is something I've dealt with before. quick search in the interwebz for the fix and there it was.

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good info but I will still live with it on mine :)