HDD / SSD connected as USB

Hello Everyone

This is my first post on Guru3D. I've using seeing the stuff on this website from many years though. I am facing a strange problem. My hard drives (1 ssd + 1 hdd) boht are connected and showing as a USB drive in Windows 7 (64bit)

Thank you

 

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I think you misunderstood. OS thinks that they (and motherboard) support hot swap and so they are treated as removable.
If in Device manager you change view to "Devices by connection" you will see whether your disks are connected to USB os SATA controllers.

 

Below showing in Windows Device Manager

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what does that mean? :-/

 

You should expand device tree until you see your disks.

 

Okay I was able to see disk drives in Device Manager Tree.
Now all I want is to remove/fixed drives showing under "Safe-Remove-Usb-Device icons".
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The safe remove option usually shows when you are in AHCI mode and using the generic MS AHCI drivers. If you install Intels RST driver it should disappear.

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/24293/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver

 

alright.. so installing the AHCI/RAID drivers for my board resolved the issue.

Problem solved.

@alanm Thank you mate

 

It also improves performance!