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Remove Sata drives from Safely Remove Hardware Notification

Contributed by hibrad2003

October 25, 2006

Tagged: Windows

If you have a Nforce4 Based Motherboard and your sata drives are showing up in Safely Remove Hardware, this registry hack will allow you to fix it.

1. Click Start -> Run
2. Execute regedit
3. Navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\nvata

4. Click Edit
5. Select New > DWORD value
6. Name this DWORD: DisableRemovable
7. Double click this new DWORD and set its value to one (1).
8. Close Regedit and reboot

Voila’ you’re all done!

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Raymond Story 3 months ago 1 point
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My system is a GATEWAY FX540S
I have a SAFELY REMOVE HARDWARE problem too.
It wants me to remove:
1st line ----------- Disk Drives D; C;
2nd line --------- Blu-Ray DVD Drive F;
I ran regedit , found all the keyword paramaters except NVATA
Now what? I hate that ICON.

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Caroline 2 months ago 1 point
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That's brilliant. It completely fixed my problem.

Thanks.

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EB 2 months ago 1 point
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In Vista the key is no longer nvata is nvstor

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EJ12N 2 months ago 1 point
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I'll Take that back, I tried everything on vista and nothing worked.
My specs are Vista 32bit with 64bit hardware... BUT in the end I DID find a SOLUTION :)

Is a little program called USB DLM it allows you to hide ANY type of drive, external or internal from safely remove hardware dialog, it also allows you to assign letters to usb drives, and a lot of other useful stuff, best of all is FREE.

You can find the software at:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

Download it and read help file at:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_help_e.html

Search for "safely" and you will find the directions on how to hide the drives.

IMO the best solution available :)

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John T 2 months ago 1 point
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When I added the above to nvstor I got a Blue screen crash. After reboot the remove scsi icon was still there. Maybe I'll just learn to live with it.

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Ahmed Elbadri 1 month ago 1 point
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I don't know why but i can't find the last file :S
I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 i run Vista on it.
Can you help me please?

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