Windows 10: SATA drive showing as removable media, same bus number, different target ID

Here are the two drives that use the same Bus Number, which is 0.The drive that is working fine is the one on the left bus number 0, target id 1The drive that isn't working is the one on the right bus number 0, target id 0Both drives are plugged in internally.Windows shows that the second drive WDC WD3200BEVT-75A23T0, bus number 0, target id 0 is a removable device.I've already tried adding a "TreatAsInternalPort" with a value of 0 to regedit, and it still doesn't work.Please help.My computer is: Legion T5-28IMB05

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Internal SATA hard drives show up as removable devices in 'Safely Remove Hardware'

Hi,

Issue; I've got two of my internal SATA hard drives (4 internal hard drive in total) showing as removeable drives in the 'safely remove hardware and eject media' tray icon list.

I don't want to accidentally eject one of them so I would like them not to appear in the 'eject media' list.

What I've tried so far; I've checked the BIOS and all 'Hot Plug' for these devices is disabled. I've checked the Policies in Device Manager that Cache Writing is enabled ('Better Performance' or 'Quick Removal' are two other options and they are
set to Better Performance for each device)

I found a solution on the MS forum which partly works for me. That is a registry edit run from command prompt as follows;

reg.exe add “HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\storahci\Parameters\Device” /f /v TreatAsInternalPort /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d x (where 'x' is the Bus number of the device)

I have two drives Bus 0 and Bus 1 showing as removeable. The problem is, I enter one Bus and it no longer appears as removeable. So far, so good. But when I try the same for the second bus, it just replaces the first entry in the Registry, so I can only
fix one or the other, not both. I can't add the second drive.



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I'd be grateful if anyone could advise how/if I can work around this.

Many thanks in advance

Win 10 Pro (x64) up to date - Intel (R) Core (TM) i7-3770K @ 3.50GHz - 32BG RAM - ASUSTeK P8Z77-V PRO

 

Storage Space is Offline due to critical write failures - which drive is problematic?

Hi RWB,

The Target ID cannot be the SATA port number... it is 0 with several of my drives.

The Bus Number cannot be SATA port either, as my C drive and one of the media drives in the pool have the same Bus Number 0...

So I think I am back to square one, no way of knowing where this drive is plugged in!!

Any other ideas?

tx

Mark.

 

Storage Space is Offline due to critical write failures - which drive is problematic?

Hi

Oh dear, actually I am looking at the General tabs and the Target ID cannot be the SATA port because two drives have 0 as the Target ID number.

So it must be Bus Number = Sata port??