Option to eject my hard drive!

Question

I have a strange message on my PC, purchased earlier this year. It seems to offer me the option to eject my D: drive!

Strangely, the D: drive is listed twice in File Manager.

I am reluctant to select the Eject option in case my D: drive is disabled, though I would be happy to remove the double listing.  Have you seen this behaviour before with any machines running Windows 11?

Answer 1

Hi PeeJay48,

Does the hard disk show up as removable disk in Disk Management? If yes, please give a try to the following solution.

1. Open a command prompt with administrator privileges.
2. In the command prompt window, type the following command in hit Enter: devmgmt.msc
3. Under Disk Drives, identify the SATA device you would like the inbox driver to consider internal and open properties for this device by right-clicking and selecting Properties.
4. Note the bus number from the properties overview (“1” in the below example).
5. Type the following command in the previously opened command prompt and hit Enter:

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

   Where x corresponds to the Bus Number you noted in step 4.
   https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/internal-sata-drives-show-up-as-removeable-media-1f806a64-8661-95a6-adc7-ce65a976c8dd

Best Regards,

Ian Xue

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Answer 2

Hi Peehay,

Please share the same screen shot of the same.

I think 2 drives using same drive letter becoz of mirrored drive .