Safely Remove Hardware Error

[hiyou]

I have a thinkpad T60p, windows xp sp2.

I have the option to safely the HL-DT-ST DVDRAM, or Drive D:, which i never understood why. Can i get rid of this? Everything works, the drive reads cds fine, but it just seems strange that i should be able to "safely remove it".

[Broni]

First thing to try...
Download, and install CCleaner: http://www.ccleaner.com/download/builds. Get "Slim" version.
Read CCleaner instruction here: http://www.jahewi.nl/ccleaner/ccleaner.html, and run CCleaner
While running CCleaner, make sure, you have a checkmark in Old prefetch data under Advanced section.

Restart computer, and see if DVD drive is still listed in "Safely remove hardware". I assume, it's internal drive?

If that doesn't help, registry edit is needed.
Download ListUsbDrives: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/listusbdrives.zip
Unzip, and double click on ListUsbDrives_To_Notepad.cmd file.
Notepad will open with all of your USB devices listed.
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