Inernal hard disk shown as USB Mass storage device -XFX 650i Ulta

[lavan_joy]

My Config;
Nforce XFX 650i Ultra motherboard
XFX Nvidia 8500 GT PCI Express Card
Core 2 Duo 2.33 GHz
1GB DDR2 Ram(667 Mhz)
250 GB Western Digital SATA Hard disk.
OS: Vista 32 bit Ultimate

After installing windows vista, I installed the provided drivers without any problem and my PC works smoothly.

After that I downloaded and installed the latest drivers from www.xfxforce.com for my 650i & 8500GT PCIEX card. After restarting my PC, my internal hard disk is shown as an USB Mass Storage device in the system tray.

Any solution will be appreciated.

Thanks

[lavan_joy]

No response from the XFX Mod for this post! Great!

I removed the some 650i chipset drivers and now there is no problem

[tyle6]

OK, your drive will be shown in the system tray once all the right SATA drivers are loaded allowing for hot swappability.
your drive shouldn't be a USB mass storage device though. it will show up in safely remove hardware box check its properties by right clicking it and im sure it will not be a USB mass storage device. try reinstalling the drivers again to verify this.
I believe without those drivers the drive is only operating in IDE mode.

[beardedwonder]

After installing windows vista, I installed the provided drivers without any problem and my PC works smoothly.

After that I downloaded and installed the latest drivers from www.xfxforce.com for my 650i & 8500GT PCIEX card. After restarting my PC, my internal hard disk is shown as an USB Mass Storage device in the system tray.

Any solution will be appreciated.

Thanks
If you mean it's shown in the safely remove dialogue then that's normal. There's a workaround for XP involving a registry edit but i don't know what you can do with Vista.

[Xero (1)ne]

No response from the XFX Mod for this post! Great!

I removed the some 650i chipset drivers and now there is no problem

You just removed your sata drivers. I hope it hasn't impacted your performance in any way.

[xfxsupport]

Which drivers did you remove? I will check with the engineers but there should be no compatibility issues with that hardware.

[lavan_joy]

OK, your drive will be shown in the system tray once all the right SATA drivers are loaded allowing for hot swappability.
your drive shouldn't be a USB mass storage device though. it will show up in safely remove hardware box check its properties by right clicking it and im sure it will not be a USB mass storage device. try reinstalling the drivers again to verify this.
I believe without those drivers the drive is only operating in IDE mode.
Thanks for the information! When I right click the drive it show as USB mass storage deveice.
I updated the Vista with "NVIDIA Corporation driver update for NVIDIA nForce 430/410 Serial ATA controller" also. After that I reinstalled everything and it shows the same thing. please check the attached image file below .




Which drivers did you remove? I will check with the engineers but there should be no compatibility issues with that hardware.

When I removed "NVIDIA Media Storage Driver" and the USB mass storage icon had been removed but the hard disk worked as IDE. But I have 250 GB SATA hard disk.

Check this image file:
http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/9761/xfx650iproblemeg0.th.jpg (http://img504.imageshack.us/my.php?image=xfx650iproblemeg0.jpg)



NVIDIA Storage Driver Information
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The NVIDIA Storage driver consists of 3 components:

1) NVIDIA storage driver optimized for nForce SATA controller that will replace the driver that came with Windows.

2) A RAID controller driver which is required if SATA RAID is ENABLED in BIOS

3) RAID Manager application software

[tyle6]

thats looking just right to me!! thats not showing as a USB device but a SCSI.
all that dialouge is about is easy removal. ignore it. what that is showing is your drive connected properly:) don't worry my friend!
Do you have many partitions on this disk??
I have attached an image showing you how a SATA disk looks normaly aswell as a USB disk in the device removal manager. note my disk has a single partition so you only get the one generic volume.

[lavan_joy]

Yes. I have 6 partitions in my hard disc. Thanks for the help tyle6.

Waiting for the moderato'rs reply.

[beardedwonder]

Well the instructions to get rid of it in XP are here: http://www.pcdoctor-guide.com/wordpress/?p=3079

As for Vista i don't know if there's a fix, but you could set the icon to always hide in the start menu options.

[lavan_joy]

Thanks for the help "beardedwonder"