Windows 10: Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media won't go away

My Hard Drive crapped the bed recently, it was 4 and a half years past warranty so it served more than its fair share of time *Tongue But I grabbed a nice new Samsung 850 Evo SSD, reinstalled windows and all of my stuff (since the disk was in REALLY rough shape I didn't bother migrating anything). Now in the bottom left corner the "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" icon stays in the notification area looking like this when I right click it:



The only hardware change was the SSD, I guess it isn't that big of a deal but it sort of annoys me *Tongue

:)

 

Safely remove hardware and eject media

Downloaded and did a full scan when I went to work, nothing was found

 

Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media

"it doesn't see a removable device" How do I know what device to stop if it doesn't see anything? I see a little check mark symbol on the icon. I guess I'm just confused as to why the icon needs to show when nothing is removable. I don't "need" to stop
a device. I have a wireless printer and 2 USB receivers for my keyboard & mouse.

 

I believe that is the right corner but I do not see any Safely Remove Hardware Icon. Am I missing something?

 

The icon is under the box that says "open devices and printers", its in the box under it after clicking the ^ arrow *Tongue

 

Did you install the SSD as a SATA, or PCIe ?

If SATA, then most likely it's being detected as removable, and hence it stays, listing the drive (It is listing the SSD yes?)

I have the capability on my Z97 classified to specify SATA ports as removable or not (I've got 4 drives and a SATA Docking port at the top of the case) all my drives as set to non so I don't see the indication, only the dock.

You might want to check your BIOS for the same.

If installed PCIe, not sure at that install.

 

It is a SATA SSD, but no nothing is listed (as you can see in the picture?)

 

No, your pic doesnt show the drive listed itself.

 

That is exactly what I said.

 

Ok, but check your BIOS as indicated, paying attention to the port you placed the SSD on.

What mainboard is this on?

 

Intel DP55KG, you could just look at my system specs (As I actually have mine filled out unlike the vast majority of 10 forums users *Tongue) I'll have a look in my bios but I don't think I have any option like that

 

Same here, sorry.

Here's your manual:
https://downloadmirror.intel.com/181...03_English.pdf

I'm not sure you can manually set the port, so in that case I recommend reinstalling the intel matrix storage technology for your system and then see if it still occurs.

 

Ok so while I was poking around in my BIOS I noticed that I actually had the SSD plugged into the discrete sata port on accident. I switched it over to one of the normal 6,and now the SSD IS seen as a removable device:



I don't think I can set the ports manually, and isn't matrix the older version of Intel RST, and aren't both of those for RAID setups?

 

I had to install a really old version of RST since my platform is unsupported by the latest revision. It is no longer showing up in the notification area (although I still have microsoft storage spaces controller under device manager). Marking this as solved since the original problem is resolved *Biggrin

 

Good to hear you got it!