I just reinstalled windows xp home on my PC... (updated, validated and running smooth) For some reason there is a remove hardware icon up in lower right hand corner now asking me to remove my hard drive. No way to cancel it out and there every time I reboot. It gives an option to select "WDC WD740GD-00FLC0" at location 0 and in its submenu "Generic volume- (C: )" and the only option it gives to deal with this is to "stop" the device to prepare it for removal. Anyone have an idea how to get rid of this? Thanks in advance :) It seems to be acting as if the hard drive is like a USB device of some sort which it is not.

SATA was designed with Hot Pluggable in mind so that drives can be changed/removed while a computer is running (never had the courage to try it myself tho). I think it is different depending on the chipset on your mainboard but perfectly normal, I know that it pops up on nvidia based chipsets you can try using different drivers sometimes it disappears if you use the Microsoft Drivers instead of the nvidia one. I have a Via Chipset and the newest drivers from the via website and have my drive not even listed in the removable storage display. If it bothers you just hide the icon via Task Bar Properties --> Customize --> and set always hide