HDD drives detected as removable drives

[chicha]

My friend faces this problem(he calls it problem as he is fed up with it), He has a 160GB SATA segate HDD. every time he boots his pc, his hdd is detected as removable drives and all his drives are then detected individually.

why?

[ring_wraith]

I think that's coz SATA is hot-swappable.

[chicha]

But i have SATA too and it does not happen to me.
and what exactly do you mean by hot-swappable?
i am confused. can we dissconnect the HDD while the system is running?

[motobuntu]

Originally Posted by chicha

But i have SATA too and it does not happen to me.
and what exactly do you mean by hot-swappable?
i am confused. can we dissconnect the HDD while the system is running?

I guess b'coz u might have installed your OS on that same disk and due to that u'r drive is not showing as removable disk.

Yes, you are right about the hot-swappable thing.

[ax3]

do check BIOS ......

[chicha]

ok thank you.

[manmay]

that is becoz only some motherboards provide the facility of hot swappable sata HDD. i.e. you can add/remove a non OS hdd. the motherboards that provide this facility show the drives as removable hdds.