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I have 6 hard disks in my computer and one DVD. The disk that I connect to the 6th SATA port is a regular disk. But my Windows 7 64 bit shows it as a removable drive. I can eject my hard disk! Just like a pen drive. If I connect another disk to the 6th port, I can eject that disk too. So it has nothing to do with the physical disk, it must be something related to Windows or BIOS
I don't understand why Windows 7 is seeing a normal hard disk as removable. In Computer Management - Disk Management, the disk looks identical to the others - there is nothing there to suggest the drive is different from the others. But in the tray I have the icon to eject it.
The motherboard model is ASUS F2A85 V PRO FM2 and it has 7 SATA ports. All the disks are formatted normally, no Dynamic Disk, no RAID, nothing special.
How can I tell Windows 7 to treat the disk exactly like the others, so it can't be ejected?
in bios does the sata is properly listed? – BlueBerry - Vignesh4303 – 2013-11-06T10:06:35.123
That's probably your one and only eSATA port. Check if it's red port on your MB. eSATA
– week – 2013-11-06T10:18:23.310The disk is properly listed in BIOS. The 5th disk is identical also - ST3000DM001. I can see no difference between 5th and 6th in BIOS. – BearCode – 2013-11-06T10:50:09.480
The disk is not connected on the eSATA port. The eSATA port is on the rear of the motherboard (where the VGA, HDMI, audio and USB ports are) – BearCode – 2013-11-06T11:08:25.637