A problem with SATA-drive in Laptop

The problem is related to Sata Drives and I have a totally new copy of
Windows XP
with the latest updates. I recently updated BIOS and other components as
well.

My problem in this case is that I can't restart or shut down XP before I
Safely remove the device
as one should do when a USB-device is plugged in.

It's a SATA DVD-ram: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T20N ATA.

It's an Acer Laptop. I'm using it for school so I rather not hear;
you should return it to Acer because we all know what then happens;
12 weeks later >>we seem to have a little problem with your laptop<< and so
on.



Before reading the next lines you should know that I ofcourse use original
versions of
Microsoft Windows.



I've tried this so far:

Installed XP in Danish

Reinstalled XP in English

Reinstalled XP with SATA drivers (Danish once again)

Opened the laptop and unplugged the DVD-ram.

---------------------------------------------- everything but the vital for
XP to work.

Tried this tricky thing out in Registry Database:

search the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Control/Class/
search for "4D36E965-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318"

Search the propertys UpperFilter an LowersFilter and kill the value. If only
one prop. is there,
you must kill only the one value.



I have no clue what so ever.

On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 08:41:00 -0700, The Omen <The Omen DeleteThis @discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>The problem is related to Sata Drives and I have a totally new copy of
>Windows XP
>with the latest updates. I recently updated BIOS and other components as
>well.
>
>My problem in this case is that I can't restart or shut down XP before I
>Safely remove the device
>as one should do when a USB-device is plugged in.
>
>It's a SATA DVD-ram: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T20N ATA.
>
>It's an Acer Laptop. I'm using it for school so I rather not hear;
>you should return it to Acer because we all know what then happens;
>12 weeks later >>we seem to have a little problem with your laptop<< and so
>on.


You write 'My problem in this case is that I can't restart or shut down XP
before I Safely remove the device'

You seem to have got things wrong here. You have to disconnect your external
before shutting down. If you manage to do it the other way round you will start
up a computer which thinks it has a USB external connected and it is looking for
the many folders you might have on that external. So be a good danish lad and
make sure you hit the icon on the right side of the taskbar and you get the OK
to disconnect BEFORE YOU SHUT DOWN XP. Glem ikke at g|re det hver gang i
fremtiden.

B|rge in sunny Perth, Australia