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    Ultrabay HDD: "Safely Remove Hardware" in Windows 8

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Prince14, Oct 9, 2015.

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    I recently purchased a refurbished Lenovo T430. Loving it so far. There's a minor inconvenience, I've installed a second HDD to Ultrabay using Caddy and it has permanent appearance in "Safely Remove Hardware". I have searched and found the Registry hack i.e. forcing Windows to treat it as "Internal" but that does not seem to be working for me.

    I am on Windows 8.1 btw. Any help and guidance in this regard would be appreciated.
     
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    I used this with Microsoft's driver but it does not work:

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    Never mind guys, I have solved it by adding a task to run at startup in Task Scheduler to change capability number of the HDD. I followed THIS method.

    In Windows 8.1, the concerned HDD name/section can be found here,

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\SCSI​

    The default capability in Windows was 102, I changed it to 98 as instructed in the method, pasting for ready reference:

    How it’s done:

    • Must Login as Administrator
    • Find Device DWORD Value in Regedit
    • Create command line in Schedule Task as SYSTEM
    • Works for various system devices connected, and modification is easily reversible by simply deleting the Schedule Task created

    Details:

    1. Locate Your Device(s) in Regedit:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\SCSI

    • This will bring up a list of available hardware connections. For SATA DVD-rom drives, and hard drives look under IDE/SATA/SCSI. For Video Cards look in PCI.

    2. Once you find your device, expand it and click on the first key folder under it (looks something like 4&15e311de&0&0.1.0).
    • The Capability value in this key folder should be greater than 0.
    • Take a note of the Capability number (mine was 102)

    3. Right-click the key folder and select Copy Key Name.

    4. Open Task Scheduler > Create Task > and set the following parameters:

    • Change User or Group (Under Security Options) and set it to SYSTEM
    • Configure for: Chose your platform
    • Triggers Tab > New > Begin the Task > At Startup
    • Actions Tab > New
    • Program/script: reg.exe
    • Add arguments: add "paste your copied key name here" /v Capabilities /t REG_DWORD /d Your Capability Number minus 4 here /f

    Example: add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\ IDE\CdRomOptiarc_DVD_RW_AD-7240S_________________1.01____\4&15e311de&0&0.1.0" /v Capabilities /t REG_DWORD /d 98 /f

    5. Right-click the new Scheduled Task and click Run. You should see the results immediately. Logoff/Logon and the safely remove your hardware icon will be gone if there are no removable devices connected.​
     
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