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Safely Remove Hardware Hard Drive?
Name: throwingcopper33 Date: October 13, 2007 at 03:35:13 Pacific OS: Vista 32 CPU/Ram: DualCore2 Product: EVGA 680i
Comment:
I just built my first computer. I had no problems at first. I have a 500GB Seagate Barracuda SATA hard drive that showed up as such under Device Manager after the inital Vista install. It is the onl hard drive installed. After I hooked up my computer to the internet, the auto windows updates took place. After 37 updates were installed, I got the Safely Remove Hardware icon for my hard drive. Under device manager, now there is no manufacturer name of the drive... just the model number. And now it is labeling it as a SCSI device. I tried a utility from the Seagate website, but it did not work for me for some reason. Is there a performance hit on my drive now that is is labeled a SCSI device? And is there anyway to keep the Safely Remove Hardware icon from coming on?
Name: mountain Date: October 13, 2007 at 05:10:15 Pacific
Reply:
in the new vista computers, all sata devices are labeled scsi. even the combo burners are. look in prgram features, 'turn features off/on' see if theres a box to turn it off
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Response Number 2
Name: XpUser Date: October 13, 2007 at 06:45:13 Pacific
Name: throwingcopper33 Date: October 13, 2007 at 10:29:02 Pacific
Reply:
I went to windows features, but saw nothing related for hard drive. I will try the edit registry.
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Response Number 4
Name: throwingcopper33 Date: October 13, 2007 at 10:46:49 Pacific
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I tried the edit registry from the website, but there is no "nvata". I did a search of the entire registry. It does say the fix is for GeForce 4 boards.. and mine is a GeForce 6(EVGA 680i). I tried anyway, but could not find "nvata" under that key.
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Response Number 5
Name: throwingcopper33 Date: October 13, 2007 at 10:55:27 Pacific
Reply:
oops... nForce.. not GeForce. I just woke up =)
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Response Number 6
Name: XpUser Date: October 13, 2007 at 12:54:21 Pacific
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