I have an Intel motherboard that has six SATA cable sockets and I am using
one for a drive and another for a connection to a port on the front panel of
the computer. When the drives are listed under Computer or Manage Drives,
the four unused sockets are shown as empty "removable media" drives. I do
not want to see these as they just confuse that page. How do I hide them?

Barrie,

Do you have a 'media card reader' installed? If so that is a more probable
source of the 4 removable devices.

If you do not want a particular hardware device to be used by Vista go to
Device manager, right click on the device and select disable.
(for me I have 5 items under Disk Drives, one 'ARRAY' (my raid hard
drive(s)) and 4 TEAC USB HS-xx xx USB device. So the hard disk and 4 empty
drives show for me.

Michael


"Barrie" <Barrie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:67141ECB-7365-4A99-91F4-D76CC739A0DA@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I have an Intel motherboard that has six SATA cable sockets and I am using
> one for a drive and another for a connection to a port on the front panel
> of
> the computer. When the drives are listed under Computer or Manage Drives,
> the four unused sockets are shown as empty "removable media" drives. I do
> not want to see these as they just confuse that page. How do I hide them?[/color]

Michael, thank you! You have put your finger on it and I do not know why I
did not think of that. I put a new-to-me card reader with four slots in the
system. As it is newly built and in the trouble-shooting phase, I had not
even got around to thinking about it and it was "out of mind." At least I
know it is likely to work when I eventually get there. :-) I apologize to my
SATA sockets for wrongly accusing them.

"Michael" wrote:
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> Barrie,
>
> Do you have a 'media card reader' installed? If so that is a more probable
> source of the 4 removable devices.
>
> If you do not want a particular hardware device to be used by Vista go to
> Device manager, right click on the device and select disable.
> (for me I have 5 items under Disk Drives, one 'ARRAY' (my raid hard
> drive(s)) and 4 TEAC USB HS-xx xx USB device. So the hard disk and 4 empty
> drives show for me.
>
> Michael
>
>
> "Barrie" <Barrie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:67141ECB-7365-4A99-91F4-D76CC739A0DA@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> >I have an Intel motherboard that has six SATA cable sockets and I am using
> > one for a drive and another for a connection to a port on the front panel
> > of
> > the computer. When the drives are listed under Computer or Manage Drives,
> > the four unused sockets are shown as empty "removable media" drives. I do
> > not want to see these as they just confuse that page. How do I hide them?[/color]
>[/color]