Re: removable setting

Anna wrote:
"Todd and Margo Chester" <ToddMargoChester@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:e2h9eu$j6c$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi All,

Where is the setting to manually tell XP
that a drive is removable?

Many thanks,
--Todd


M and D wrote:
It makes no difference to Windows whether a drive is removable. The
drive is either connected or it's not. What particularly do you want to do?
Steven


I want to remove a "Hot Swappable" drive as if it was a USB memory stick

--Tony


Tony:
It would really help if you would provide details re your "Hot Swappable drive". Is this a PATA (IDE) HD installed in a mobile rack designed for removable hard drives? Tell us exactly what this device is and how it's presently connected in your system
Anna



Anna,

It is a SATA hard drive in a removable, hot swappable carrier
and is connected to am Adaptec Serial ATA 1205SA controller
card, which is also hot swappable, but has no bios setting
for removable drives.

I gave you no detail on purpose. I did not want readers to go
off on a tangent, like telling to set it in BIOS. I am looking
for something like, "go into device manager and set it in the properties
tab for your hard drive". (Sadly, that only works in Win98.)

--Todd
.

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