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Why does the SATA HDD become a removable device after installing nVIDIA chip set driver under Windows XP?

April 26, 2017chip device driver HDD nVidia removable SATA Windows XP

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Why does the SATA HDD become a removable device after installing nVIDIA chip set driver under Windows XP?

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Ans. This is because the nVIDIA chipset supports SATA Hot Swap function. You can see the SATA Device in the safely remove hardware wizard under Windows XP. However, please note that Windows will NOT allow you to remove a boot drive / system volume within this Windows utility.