{"id":232,"date":"2013-12-24T11:18:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T18:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/?p=232"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T22:52:00","slug":"hide-drives-in-safely-remove-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Hide Drives in Safely Remove Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Navigate to the following registry path:<\/p>\n<pre><b id=\"yui_3_10_0_1_1387908300142_547\">HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\services\\msahci<\/b><\/pre>\n<p>Create new keys:<\/p>\n<pre>Controller0\\Channel0\r\nController0\\Channel1<\/pre>\n<p>&#8230; and so on.<\/p>\n<p>For channel you wish to keep from showing up in &#8220;Safely Remove Hardware&#8221;, create a DWORD named &#8220;TreatAsInternalPort&#8221; and set the value to 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.overclock.net\/t\/974023\/fix-ahci-sata-drives-showing-in-safely-remove-hardware#post_12863711\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navigate to the following registry path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\services\\msahci Create new keys: Controller0\\Channel0 Controller0\\Channel1 &#8230; and so on. For channel you wish to keep from showing up in &#8220;Safely Remove Hardware&#8221;, create a DWORD named &#8220;TreatAsInternalPort&#8221; and set the value to 1. Source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[37],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.d5.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}