Windows 10: Internal SATA drives show as removable

Discus and support Internal SATA drives show as removable in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; My motherboard has two SATA controllers. C: and D: are connected to a separate controller from the other two hard drives and one DVD burner. C: and... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by Galane, Dec 22, 2016.

  1. Galane Win User

    Internal SATA drives show as removable


    My motherboard has two SATA controllers. C: and D: are connected to a separate controller from the other two hard drives and one DVD burner.

    C: and D: show on the remove/eject menu. How do I get them off that?

    The last, and only other, time I encountered such a problem was with XP, when SATA was the newest thing. Then I just lived with it, wasn't a fix for that particular board because nobody saw fit to fix the driver or whatever caused it. Now? There's no excuse for this error with a mature technology.

    :)
     
    Galane, Dec 22, 2016
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    Likhitha V, Dec 22, 2016
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  3. Internal SATA Drives show up as removeable media on Z77x-UD5H-WB WiFi and Win10 Enterprise

    After installing Win10 Enterprise, the drives connected with the Marvell 88SE9172 are displayed as removeable media in the Safely Remove Hardware list.

    There's no hot plug option for Marvell SATA options in BIOS and I have also tried as this page suggests (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3083627), but neither of them worked.

    reg.exe add “HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\storahci\Parameters\Device” /f /v TreatAsInternalPort /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d 0

    reg.exe add “HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\mvs91xx\Parameters\Device” /f /v TreatAsInternalPort /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d 0

    Please help if I missed anything or did it wrong. Thanks!


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    Justin Wu B, Dec 22, 2016
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  4. CountMike New Member

    Internal SATA drives show as removable

    Are they by any chance connected to eSATA controller ? Also check "Policy" tab for them in device manager, "Enable write caching" should be enabled otherwise system will threat them as external.
     
    CountMike, Dec 22, 2016
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  5. Galane Win User
    Write caching is enabled and they're set for better performance, not quick removal. The board has one eSata port but I don't know which of the two controllers it is connected to. It's an Asrock 770 Extreme3.

    Edit: I'm going to try this https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3083627
     
    Galane, Dec 22, 2016
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  6. CountMike New Member
    Look at the manual. First BOOT drive is recommended to be on SATA0 to make sure it's on main controller. One of those two white plugs.
    http://asrock.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com/...20Extreme3.pdf
     
    CountMike, Dec 22, 2016
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  7. Galane Win User
    They are on those connectors. The info on that link fixed bus 1 but not 0. Trying it for 0 again and rebooting again.

    Edit: I entered that command with a 0 then rebooted. The Bus 0 drive is no longer on the remove menu, but the Bus 1 drive is back on it. 10 points to House Microsoft, minus five for an incomplete fix.
     
    Galane, Dec 22, 2016
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  8. TV2
    TV2 Win User

    Internal SATA drives show as removable

    This behavior is common on systems where the installed SATA AHCI driver is not playing nice with the motherboard and/or BIOS.
    Windows installs a generic SATA AHCI driver by default when you install the OS. This is a driver designed to give basic functionality across many different products.

    It is always best to install the most current drivers offered from the OEM for your new system. In your case, any and all SATA related drivers. For Intel systems it is the Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver that handles the AHCI chores. AMD will have it's own AHCI driver, but I can't recall which one they use.
     
  9. Cliff S New Member
    Cliff S, Dec 22, 2016
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  10. Galane Win User
    I installed the AMD chipset drivers. There's a VIA VT6421, but VIA does not provide drivers. That's up to Microsoft, so bugs are their fault. Internal SATA drives show as removable :p
     
    Galane, Dec 23, 2016
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  11. Galane Win User
    The VIA SATA3 controller does not have a hot plug option. The other one (which is not the one with this problem) does have it and it was disabled on all four internal ports and the one eSATA port. I turned it on for the eSATA.
     
    Galane, Dec 23, 2016
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  12. essenbe Win User
    Galene, Microsoft provides the drivers that the hardware and software manufacturers provide to them. Microsoft writes the operating system. It would be totally unrealistic to expect Microsoft to write drivers for every piece of hardware and software that exists. It is the responsibility of the Hardware Manufacturers and software developers to write their own drivers. If they write them and provide them to Microsoft, Microsoft will update them through Windows update. If there are no drivers, the issue is with the manufacturer.
     
    essenbe, Dec 23, 2016
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  13. Steve C Win User

    Internal SATA drives show as removable

    I had that problem when I had drives connected to the Marvell SATA ports on my Gigabyte motherboard. The problem was poor driver software by Marvell. I solved the problem by moving all drives to use Intel SATA ports and disabled the Marvell ports which I no longer use.
     
    Steve C, Dec 23, 2016
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  14. Galane Win User
    I have 5 SATA drives so not using one of the problem ports isn't an option. There's something to that command here https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3083627 but there must be something it's missing because it can only fix one at a time. Change it to get rid of one and the other comes back.

    Edit: I dug into the Registry and tried that again. Now I see the problem. Each time it's entered it toggles one value instead of adding another. It's a Multi-String Value. How do I add multi-strings to it? It needs to hold both 0 and 1 instead of one or the other.

    reg.exe add “HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\storahci\Parameters\Device” /f /v TreatAsInternalPort /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d x <-What to put in place of X that inserts both 0 and 1 simultaneously?
     
    Galane, Dec 23, 2016
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  15. valihrach Win User
    0\01\02\03\04\05\06\07 ("\0" are separators).

    See reg add /? for further help.
     
    valihrach, Dec 23, 2016
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