SATA drives show up in “Safely Remove Hardware” icon when the nForce SATA drivers are installed under XP
Click Start > Run and type:
regedit
Press ENTER
Navigate to the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesnvata
Right-click in the right hand pane and choose New > DWORD
Create a new DWORD value:
DisableRemovable
Right-click on this new value and choose Modify and change the value to 1
Close Regedit
Restart Windows
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