How add sata drive as additional storage to a 2 ide k8n ne..

I know very little about sata and am trying to install a sata drive as
additional storage to my existing ide system.

I have 2 ide drives with winxp booting from the first. I added to MoBo SATA
3 connection , a seagate sata 300gb for additional storage. I enabled sata
3 and 4 in bios "integrated periph's" page. I initialized and formatted
with XP disk management.

XP sees & I can use the sata drive BUT, XP thinks it is removable hardware
and puts a shutdown icon in the system tray at the bottom right of the
screen, (like when I use an external USB device).

This doesn't seem right so there must be something that I'm not doing or am
doing wrong. Can anyone please help?

Thanks... John

>
> XP sees & I can use the sata drive BUT, XP thinks it is removable hardware
> and puts a shutdown icon in the system tray at the bottom right of the
> screen, (like when I use an external USB device).
>
> This doesn't seem right so there must be something that I'm not doing or
> am doing wrong. Can anyone please help?
>
> Thanks... John
That's because SATA drives can be hot swapped and are removable. You should
be able to go into Hardware Manager select properties>policies for each of
the drives and change from optimize for quick removal to optimize for
performance. This enables write caching to speed things up a bit and on my
system it got rid of the system tray icon. You might give it a go.