in the laptop of my 2nd system I want to have a permanent microSD as a parallel storage, 256GB. Since it's going to stay there forever and very rarely removed, I wonder if there's any way to hide it from this menu:
Basically, that it is treated as an internal SSD.
OR ideally I just want to hide it from there, so the USB icon is not triggered, doesn't matter how it's treated as a storage, I just want that USB icon to only show the external USB drives I insert (if there are none plugged in, the icon disappears), and not this microSD.
WIN 11, WIN 10, WIN 8.1, WIN 7 U, WIN 7 PRO, WIN 7 HOME (32 Bit), LINUX MINT
Computer type
PC/Desktop
Manufacturer/Model
DIY, ASUS, and DELL
CPU
Intel i7 6900K and i9-7960X / AMD 3800X (8 core)
Motherboard
ASUS X99E-WS USB 3.1 and ASUS X299 SAGE
Memory
128 GB CORSAIR DOMINATOR PLATINUM (B DIE)
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA 1070 and RTX 3070
Sound Card
Crystal Sound (onboard)
Monitor(s) Displays
single Samsung 30" 4K and 8" aux monitor
Screen Resolution
4K and something equally attrocious. I'll be working on this.
Hard Drives
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W
Ports X, Y, and Z are reserved for USB access and removable drives.
Drive types consist of the following: Various mechanical hard drives bearing the brand names, Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital. Various NVMe drives bearing the brand names Kingston, Intel, Silicon Power, Crucial, Western Digital, and Team Group. Various SATA SSDs bearing various different brand names.
INTEL RAID 0 (KINGSTON HYPER X) System 447.14 GB
INTEL RAID 1 TOSHIBA ENTERPRIZE class Data 2794.52 GB
INTEL RAID 1 SEAGATE HYBRID 931.51 GB
PSU
SEVERAL. I prefer my Corsair Platinum HX1000i but I also like EVGA power supplies
Case
ThermalTake Level 10 GT (among others)
Cooling
Noctua is my favorite and I use it in my main. I also own various other coolers.
Keyboard
all kinds.
Mouse
all kinds
Internet Speed
360 mbps - 1 gbps (depending)
Browser
FIREFOX
Antivirus
KASPERSKY (no apologies)
Other Info
Gave Dell touch screen with Windows 11 to daughter and got me an OTVOC. Being a PC builder I own many desktop PCs as well. I am a father of five providing PCs, laptops, and tablets for all my family, most of which I have modified, rebuilt, or simply built from scratch. I do not own a cell phone, never have, never will.
Can you eject a microSD card from a laptop or PC with this icon?
YES.
Can you eject your OS drive, or HDD drive, or SSD drives, connected to SATA or M.2?
NO. Because they are non-ejectable, they are internal. THIS is what I want to transform my microSD card to. The video is not doing what I want to achieve. Thanks.
Not sure if you'd want to do this, but one option would be to use Windhawk and taskbar styler to hide that menu option - but that would also mean that you wouldn't have the "Safely Remove Hardware" option for any other drives/cards/devices that you installed either.
WIN 11, WIN 10, WIN 8.1, WIN 7 U, WIN 7 PRO, WIN 7 HOME (32 Bit), LINUX MINT
Computer type
PC/Desktop
Manufacturer/Model
DIY, ASUS, and DELL
CPU
Intel i7 6900K and i9-7960X / AMD 3800X (8 core)
Motherboard
ASUS X99E-WS USB 3.1 and ASUS X299 SAGE
Memory
128 GB CORSAIR DOMINATOR PLATINUM (B DIE)
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA 1070 and RTX 3070
Sound Card
Crystal Sound (onboard)
Monitor(s) Displays
single Samsung 30" 4K and 8" aux monitor
Screen Resolution
4K and something equally attrocious. I'll be working on this.
Hard Drives
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W
Ports X, Y, and Z are reserved for USB access and removable drives.
Drive types consist of the following: Various mechanical hard drives bearing the brand names, Seagate, Toshiba, and Western Digital. Various NVMe drives bearing the brand names Kingston, Intel, Silicon Power, Crucial, Western Digital, and Team Group. Various SATA SSDs bearing various different brand names.
INTEL RAID 0 (KINGSTON HYPER X) System 447.14 GB
INTEL RAID 1 TOSHIBA ENTERPRIZE class Data 2794.52 GB
INTEL RAID 1 SEAGATE HYBRID 931.51 GB
PSU
SEVERAL. I prefer my Corsair Platinum HX1000i but I also like EVGA power supplies
Case
ThermalTake Level 10 GT (among others)
Cooling
Noctua is my favorite and I use it in my main. I also own various other coolers.
Keyboard
all kinds.
Mouse
all kinds
Internet Speed
360 mbps - 1 gbps (depending)
Browser
FIREFOX
Antivirus
KASPERSKY (no apologies)
Other Info
Gave Dell touch screen with Windows 11 to daughter and got me an OTVOC. Being a PC builder I own many desktop PCs as well. I am a father of five providing PCs, laptops, and tablets for all my family, most of which I have modified, rebuilt, or simply built from scratch. I do not own a cell phone, never have, never will.
Not sure if you'd want to do this, but one option would be to use Windhawk and taskbar styler to hide that menu option - but that would also mean that you wouldn't have the "Safely Remove Hardware" option for any other drives/cards/devices that you installed either.
Also, one thing I noticed is my microSD sometimes will go 100% usage for no reason (I'm monitoring with Task Manager) and stay like that until I access it. The microSD is fine, it must be some W11 thing... it's so random.
Also...
Shouldn't a microSD be treated as an SSD, not an HDD?
What about optimization?
If it's treated as an HDD, the defrag is nonsense for microSDs.
It could depend on how the MicroSD reader was attached to your MOBO. Some are done via a USB type of interface (although internal) rather than via the internal SATA Bus.
Not sure why you'd want to waste your time doing this though !!! -Seems a bit of a pointless use of "The Little Grey Cells" to me.
install portable version of windows on it.. and boot from it. I am not real sure, but believe the sdcards were not designed for the abuse it would take as a full OS. But, it should still work, as they do in Linux too.
It has the speeds of a USB hard disk, and might be a worthwhile option. With the speed this one offers, it might be a worthwhile candidate. I find it interesting that it's identified as a SCSI drive, not a USB device.
Red dot is a standard 32GB USB FLASH drive, the green dot is the 256GB high speed drive.
The SCSI designation also allows additional performance settings if you're so inclined. Note that the 256GB drive has additional options mimicking a hard drive.
Personally, I want my USB drives disconnected when I'm not accessing them, that way the data is truly protected.
