SATA Help

Hey, I just finished building my new pc, but my hdd is giving me some issues.
I installed windows onto the box just fine and the system runs like magic but windows keeps giving me a "safely remove hardware" icon in the tool bar asking me to safely remove my new HDD (the system only has one hdd which is SATA btw). I can not figure out why it's doing so or how to stop it doing so.

Any help would be welcomed.

PS The hdd is a Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 250GB 6V250F0 SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (HD-088-MD)

PPS: If this is in the wrong board then you have my apologies.

This is completely natural.  Your SATA chipset supports hot-swapping.

(not OP) But it is so dumb to hot-swap a sata hdd with a currently running OS. Anybody knows what happens when you do this?

>>3
If you try to do it, it'll fail because it has open files.

i did it, it says you cannot remove it, it is in use.