windows 8 internal hard drive recognized as removable device

Discussion in 'Windows 8' started by bertikul, Aug 24, 2012.

  1. bertikul

    bertikul MDL Member

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    #1 bertikul, Aug 24, 2012
    Hi everyone

    Windows 8 internal hard drives are recognized as removable device. Is there a registry hack to change that? The windows 7 workaround:
    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\msahci\Controller0\Channel0]
    "TreatAsInternalPort"=dword:00000001

    doesn't work for windows 8.

    Anyone has a solution for that?
    Thanks
     
  2. CATALINZX

    CATALINZX MDL Junior Member

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    #2 CATALINZX, Sep 17, 2012
    I have this problem too....I have an nvidia chipset but I can't use their drivers because they don't support TRIM, so If anyone could make TreatAsInternalPort reg tweak work for windows 8 would be awesome!:worthy:
     
  3. bertikul

    bertikul MDL Member

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    #3 bertikul, Sep 17, 2012 (OP)
  4. CATALINZX

    CATALINZX MDL Junior Member

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    #4 CATALINZX, Sep 17, 2012
    I have an NVIDIA Chipset, intel rapid storage driver works ony on intel chipset:negative:
     
  5. NTAuthority

    NTAuthority MDL Novice

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    #5 NTAuthority, Sep 17, 2012
    This registry value still is read from storahci.sys; you could try changing 'msahci' to 'storahci'.
     
  6. CATALINZX

    CATALINZX MDL Junior Member

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    #6 CATALINZX, Sep 17, 2012
    I tried and it does not work:(
     
  7. CATALINZX

    CATALINZX MDL Junior Member

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    #7 CATALINZX, Sep 19, 2012
    For me it does matter....I don't like that stupid icon in the right corner:rifle:
     
  8. tithitoy

    tithitoy MDL Junior Member

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    #8 tithitoy, Sep 19, 2012
  9. CATALINZX

    CATALINZX MDL Junior Member

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    #9 CATALINZX, Sep 19, 2012
    Nvidia drivers don't support TRIM(I have an SSD), I must use the default Microsoft AHCI driver:wallbash:
     
  10. bamse

    bamse MDL Novice

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    #10 bamse, Sep 19, 2012
    i just disabled autorun on win8 with my ssd disk. everything else still runs normal and smooth :)
     
  11. tithitoy

    tithitoy MDL Junior Member

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    #11 tithitoy, Sep 19, 2012
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    you can try enable TRIM manual: (Because TRIM is supported by OS, not by Driver)

    Go to the Command Prompt (Admin) and type:

    fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify 0

    You can also check TRIM status:

    In the Elevated command Prompt windows, type the following:

    fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify
    Results explained below:
    DisableDeleteNotify = 1 (Windows TRIM commands are disabled)
    DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Windows TRIM commands are enabled)