Safely remove the C-drive ????

[poulbak]

Just reinstalled Windows 7 guest.
Now I get the 'Safely remove' for the hard disk:

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What is that about?

The harddisk is on SATA port 0
VBox is 4.10 (newest).
In windows it's shown as a harddisk, not a removable drive.

Is that SATA hotplug or something?
Looks like a bug to me.

Of course I just had to try to eject my c-drive, but the drive was busy

[BillG]

Why would you try to eject the system drive? I am pleased that it failed.

[wacher]

The question is why has he an option to remove disk, not why he does it.
He does it, because he is curious

[mpack]

What version of VBox is this?

VBox used to do this with XP as well, i.e. treat all SATA drives as potentially removable (i.e. eSATA), but I thought that was fixed a long time ago.

[poulbak]

VBox is the newest!
Never seen it before this version.
The funny thing is that Windows won't even install on anything removable.

[wacher]

I got it

Eject C

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Guest: Win7, no one else installed just VBA. A plain Win7 + 4.1.2 VBA.

[Sasquatch]

It's the SATA hotplug option that gives you this. If you have a laptop and have the Intel Storage controller, you get the same. VB emulates similar hardware, the Intel ICH8M to be precise. And yes, that M stands for mobile, so you have the hot-plug option.