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    How to disable/hide ejection of internal hard drives and usb devices.?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by jackluo923, Mar 20, 2010.

  1. jackluo923

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    How do I disable removability of internal hdd and wifi adapter?
     
    jackluo923, Mar 20, 2010
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    Double click your HD in device manager, navigate to "Policies", and see if you can change the removal setting. Are you using a USB WLAN adapter?
     
    coolguy, Mar 21, 2010
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    Under policies, there's only things related to data cache/buffer..etc. Normally, registry setting can be applied to disable all SATA drives to be non-removable. But what I want is some SATA drive to be permanent and some drives to be removable.

    And yes, i'm using usb Wlan.
     
    jackluo923, Mar 21, 2010
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    Turn off AHCI in BIOS.
     
    Amnesiac, Mar 21, 2010
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  5. H.A.L. 9000

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    Did this notebook come with Windows 7? I've noticed that when people upg they sometimes hit this issue.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Mar 21, 2010
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    Turn off AHCI will turn off the hotswapability of hdds. I need some hdds to be hot swappable and removable while the internal drives to be permanent and unremovable.
     
    jackluo923, Mar 21, 2010
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    Oh, ok.

    10char
     
    Amnesiac, Mar 21, 2010
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    External hotswappable? Are those eSATA? (never had an eSATA drive actually)
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Mar 21, 2010
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    I hotswap internal hdds through regular sata interface (not esata). E.g. bare hdds,
     
    jackluo923, Mar 21, 2010
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    Oh, mmk. The whole "external" thing was throwing me for a loop. The way I solved it was downloading and installing the Intel Matrix Storage Manager. It hid that on my Sony.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Mar 21, 2010
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