SATA hd coming up as removable disk

hey i recently installed a Seagate SATA 120gb HD, formatted and installed windows xp. and i'm getting the removable disk icon coming up in the taskbar. the sata drive is the only hard drive on the system. is there anyway to prevent the sata drive from showing up as a removable drive???
thanks
AMD 64 3400+
MSI K8N NEO Platinum
1 GB DDR 400 PC3200 RAM
EVGA GeForce 6800 GT 256MB
Seagate SATA 120GB 7200RPM HD
550 Watt PSU

This is normal. I think you can hide the icon in winxp in one of the settings menus.

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