Ejecting internal hdd's

that means you can hot-swap them :) though I would be very wary of ejecting the one with C:\
I believe XP did that as well but you need the right BIOS setting and controller driver.
 
Win 7 turned Davros's PC into a toaster for hard drives. I wonder how you know when they are done?
 
Why it seems stupid to you is because you do not understand your hardware capabilities.

You're likely running SATA drives on SATA Controller with AHCI enabled. If so, that combination supports Hot-Swapping, hence the Eject ability.
 
wow, a USB floppy disk :)
what happens if you eject that one, does the floppy come out? :oops:

btw shame that 5"1/4 all went to the trash I can't even find one to decorate my tower. (or use them to bootstrap computers). they do are classy and amazingly reliable.

I guess I will play with plugging-in a cigar lighter. what would be awesome and pointless is to wire it up and code an applet so I get a notification in the systray when the lighter is ready.

even more pointless would be to actually integrate the toaster there, I think it's where we're headed when 'visionary' articles talk of everything becoming an intelligent connected device!
 
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Why it seems stupid to you is because you do not understand your hardware capabilities.

You're likely running SATA drives on SATA Controller with AHCI enabled. If so, that combination supports Hot-Swapping, hence the Eject ability.

Ahh got it thanks...

strange it just says samsung scsi device (its sata) but doesnt mention Games J and Games K
"The Sacred Terabyte of Gaming Goodness" is in the process of becoming "The Sanctified Three Terabytes of Gaming Goodness"

wow, a USB floppy disk :)
what happens if you eject that one, does the floppy come out? :oops:

Its actually a 4gb usb drive used for readyboost (probably useless i know)
 
Intel is pretty good but I remember with at least another vendor, common advice was "don't ever install the vendor supplied drivers or all hell will break loose" :LOL:
 
by that do you mean Intel Matrix Storage manager (got it)
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Sea...roductProduct=Intel®+Rapid+Storage+Technology
or something else

They rebranded it http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/sb/CS-020784.htm and whereas the MSM stuff had some occasionally catastrophic issues, these are quite good, and they alert you to data transfer errors across the controller (rather than causing them). Well at any rate I've had a good experience with them, and Intel recommends them even for non-raid setups.
 
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