NotQuiteParity

The DVD RW drive is displayed as the F: drive and, like the D: drive, is working fine. The D: drive itself works and can be accessed, I originally installed it for backup purposes and have since yesterday backed up various folders to it. The backups themselves can also be accessed just like the originals on the C: drive, the only difference is that for some reason Windows still thinks the D: drive is an external storage device.

Yes I've done both of those things. Originally the drive was partitioned so after I installed it I removed it and reformatted the drive in order to get rid of some pesky Windows folders that didn't want to politely remove themselve when prompted. The new drive was originally assigned both D: and E: but after the partition was removed became the D: drive.

Within the BIOS the secondary hard drive is set to auto detection and is shown as a slave drive. One thing I have noticed though is that in the BIOS it displays all of the hard drives specifications as it does the primary, but when viewing it through the device manager in Windows all I get is "no description available." Windows just shows the capacity and misses out everything else, it also labels the drive as SCSI. The hard drive model is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160GB which has an online PDF at http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/manuals/sata/100390001c.pdf but it mostly seems to be about driver specifications and physical installation.

Hi, first post here but long time lurker. I've recently installed a secondary internal hard drive on my desktop, whilst it works ok Windows seems to think it's external and constantly has the "remove external media" flashing on the taskbar. I'm not sure how to correct this as it's installed exactly the same as my primary hard drive, the only difference is that it's SATA 1 rather than 3. Out of curiosity I decided to see what would happen if I clicked on it and the D drive vanished. I wasn't sure if there was a Windows equivelant of the Linux mount command that I could use so I just reset and the D drive was back, and so was the message telling me about removing external media. Is there a way I can get Windows to realise that this isn't an external drive?