Remove Sata drives from Safely Remove Hardware Notification

Contributor Icon Contributed by hibrad2003 Date Icon October 25, 2006  
Tag Icon 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
    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.
  • Caroline
    That's brilliant. It completely fixed my problem.

    Thanks.
  • EB
    In Vista the key is no longer nvata is nvstor
  • EJ12N
    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 :)
  • John T
    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.
  • Ahmed Elbadri
    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?
  • Luke
    If I put USB flashDrive ; the Sata drives still shown.
    I change the value to 01 and it works now.
    Thanks
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