Unable to Safely Remove Hardware -- Server 2008 with Hyper-V

Server 2008 With Hyper-V SP1 with all critical updates applied.

I have five SATA drives -- two of which are in exposed 5 1/4" slots and are removable. One of the
drives does not have a drive letter assigned to it. The Safely Remove Hardware icon is not in the
tray. If I run:

C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll

It opens an empty window -- no removable drives are shown.

Is this a known Server 2008 bug?

 

Anybody?

Stewart Berman <saberman@nospam.nospam> wrote:

>Server 2008 With Hyper-V SP1 with all critical updates applied.
>
>I have five SATA drives -- two of which are in exposed 5 1/4" slots and are removable. One of the
>drives does not have a drive letter assigned to it. The Safely Remove Hardware icon is not in the
>tray. If I run:
>
>C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll
>
>It opens an empty window -- no removable drives are shown.
>
>Is this a known Server 2008 bug?

 

Stewart,
What do you mean when you say two of the drives are "removable"? Are you
trying to remove them while the OS is running, like a USB drive?
Anthony
http://www.airdesk.com





"Stewart Berman" <saberman@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
news:ddl5u4h9akijbeng0tchdl93pho2homoks@4ax.com...
> Anybody?
>
> Stewart Berman <saberman@nospam.nospam> wrote:
>
>>Server 2008 With Hyper-V SP1 with all critical updates applied.
>>
>>I have five SATA drives -- two of which are in exposed 5 1/4" slots and
>>are removable. One of the
>>drives does not have a drive letter assigned to it. The Safely Remove
>>Hardware icon is not in the
>>tray. If I run:
>>
>>C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll
>>
>>It opens an empty window -- no removable drives are shown.
>>
>>Is this a known Server 2008 bug?
>

 

On my XP Pro SP3 system all of my SATA drives show up in Safely Remove Hardware.

On my Server 2008 with Hyper-V none of my SATA drives show up in Safely Remove Hardware.

The XP system has one ADDONICS AESNAPMRSA SNAP-IN SATA MOBILE RACK - STORAGE ENCLOSURE. The Server
system has two. These allow me to plug in or remove a SATA drive while the system is running.

On the XP system I simply select the drive in the Safely Remove Hardware window and press Stop then
press OK and I can remove the drive.

The Server 2008 system does not show the SATA drives as removable. If I connect a USB drive it does
show as removable.

The SATA drives on the Server should be hot swappable but they are not. Do you know if there is a
hot fix for his?

"Anthony [MVP]" <anthony@no-reply.com> wrote:

>Stewart,
>What do you mean when you say two of the drives are "removable"? Are you
>trying to remove them while the OS is running, like a USB drive?
>Anthony
>http://www.airdesk.com
>
>
>
>
>
>"Stewart Berman" <saberman@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
>news:ddl5u4h9akijbeng0tchdl93pho2homoks@4ax.com...
>> Anybody?
>>
>> Stewart Berman <saberman@nospam.nospam> wrote:
>>
>>>Server 2008 With Hyper-V SP1 with all critical updates applied.
>>>
>>>I have five SATA drives -- two of which are in exposed 5 1/4" slots and
>>>are removable. One of the
>>>drives does not have a drive letter assigned to it. The Safely Remove
>>>Hardware icon is not in the
>>>tray. If I run:
>>>
>>>C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll
>>>
>>>It opens an empty window -- no removable drives are shown.
>>>
>>>Is this a known Server 2008 bug?
>>

 

Stewart Berman wrote:
>Server 2008 With Hyper-V SP1 with all critical updates applied.
>
>I have five SATA drives -- two of which are in exposed 5 1/4" slots and are removable. One of the
>drives does not have a drive letter assigned to it. The Safely Remove Hardware icon is not in the
>tray. If I run:
>
>C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll
>
>It opens an empty window -- no removable drives are shown.
>
>Is this a known Server 2008 bug?


Solution: 1: Update windows.
2: Restart the computer and check it again.
3: If face still problem then scan with spyware removal and
trojon removal tool.
4: Restart the computer and check again.

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"samanderson123 via WinServerKB.com" <u50227@uwe> wrote:

>Stewart Berman wrote:
>>Server 2008 With Hyper-V SP1 with all critical updates applied.
>>
>>I have five SATA drives -- two of which are in exposed 5 1/4" slots and are removable. One of the
>>drives does not have a drive letter assigned to it. The Safely Remove Hardware icon is not in the
>>tray. If I run:
>>
>>C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll
>>
>>It opens an empty window -- no removable drives are shown.
>>
>>Is this a known Server 2008 bug?
>
>
>Solution: 1: Update windows.
> 2: Restart the computer and check it again.
> 3: If face still problem then scan with spyware removal and
>trojon removal tool.
> 4: Restart the computer and check again.

Thanks but the system has all critical and important updates as well as antivirus and antispyware
running. The machine has been restarted a number of times.

The problem has been there from the day the server was built. It does not recognize SATA drives as
being demountable.

 

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Stewart Berman <saberman@nospam.nospam> wrote:

>On my XP Pro SP3 system all of my SATA drives show up in Safely Remove Hardware.
>
>On my Server 2008 with Hyper-V none of my SATA drives show up in Safely Remove Hardware.
>
>The XP system has one ADDONICS AESNAPMRSA SNAP-IN SATA MOBILE RACK - STORAGE ENCLOSURE. The Server
>system has two. These allow me to plug in or remove a SATA drive while the system is running.
>
>On the XP system I simply select the drive in the Safely Remove Hardware window and press Stop then
>press OK and I can remove the drive.
>
>The Server 2008 system does not show the SATA drives as removable. If I connect a USB drive it does
>show as removable.
>
>The SATA drives on the Server should be hot swappable but they are not. Do you know if there is a
>hot fix for his?
>
>"Anthony [MVP]" <anthony@no-reply.com> wrote:
>
>>Stewart,
>>What do you mean when you say two of the drives are "removable"? Are you
>>trying to remove them while the OS is running, like a USB drive?
>>Anthony
>>http://www.airdesk.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>"Stewart Berman" <saberman@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
>>news:ddl5u4h9akijbeng0tchdl93pho2homoks@4ax.com...
>>> Anybody?
>>>
>>> Stewart Berman <saberman@nospam.nospam> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Server 2008 With Hyper-V SP1 with all critical updates applied.
>>>>
>>>>I have five SATA drives -- two of which are in exposed 5 1/4" slots and
>>>>are removable. One of the
>>>>drives does not have a drive letter assigned to it. The Safely Remove
>>>>Hardware icon is not in the
>>>>tray. If I run:
>>>>
>>>>C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll
>>>>
>>>>It opens an empty window -- no removable drives are shown.
>>>>
>>>>Is this a known Server 2008 bug?
>>>