Questions tagged [eject]
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How can I remove the option to eject SATA drives from the Windows 7 tray icon?
The Safely Remove Hardware icon in Windows 7 offers the ability to eject my SATA drives, including the boot drive. I don't see myself ever needing this - especially not from the convenience of the tray icon.
Is there a common BIOS setting to disable…
sblair
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How do you disconnect a USB drive when getting a "this device is currently in use"?
My daughter had her thumb drive plugged into my desktop, doing some work. She finished, logged off of her account and I logged into mine. I noticed that she left her thumb drive in the USB port, and so I tried to safely eject it, but I get the…
Rod
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How can I eject a CD via the cmd?
I have been trying to eject the cd drive with the use of the cmd.
However, I am stumped. Searching on the internet, I only found this answer:
eject D:
and a similiar answer
eject D: /I
Both of them do not work.
EDIT
Now people have found this…
Penguinz
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How can I remount an ejected (not just unmounted) USB drive on Mac?
I frequently eject an usb stick, and then realize I still need it.
If I unmount the drive in Disk Utility, I can just remount it, but if I eject, it's gone.
Not showed in Finder
Not showed in diskutil
Not showed in ls /dev
Is still showed in System…
Pepijn
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How to "Un-Eject" a USB Flash drive -- Eject is easy (safely remove hardware), but what about Un-Eject or Reconnect?
There are times after I eject a USB Flash drive, I want to copy some more files over to the USB Flash drive. In this case, do I always need to unplug the drive and plug it back in? Is there a way to "reconnect" or "un-eject" the drive?
To eject,…
nonopolarity
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Windows 10: No option to Eject External HARD DRIVE (NOT USB Stick)
When I plug in my external hard drive (again, NOT USB stick), and right click on the icon in This PC, there is no option to eject the drive.
There is a system tray option to "safely eject" it, but that doesn't work at all.
The only way for me to…
meowgoesthedog
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How can I remove the option to eject internal SATA drives from the Windows 8 tray icon?
The Safely Remove Hardware icon in Windows 8 (and 8.1) offers the ability to eject my internal SATA drives, including the boot drive (see example):
I don't see myself ever needing this - especially not from the convenience of the tray icon.
For…
Anton
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How to remap eject key on MacBook keyboard to "delete"?
I own a first generation MacBook Air and this has bothered me since the beginnings.
When I bought this thing, I was sure I'm not going to carry a DVD drive. I don't use it. WiFi has worked pretty well for me so far and in fact, lack of optical…
mmx
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How to close the Optical Drive tray in Windows?
I've always wondered why Windows has an Eject option but doesn't include a corresponding Close / Close Tray option in the context menu of optical drives.
Is there a way of closing the optical drive tray without the use of any third party software in…
Reza M.
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How do I recover files from an USB flash drive?
I have a flash drive that was used primarily on a Mac, and it was ejected improperly.
Now when I put it back in, the computer (I tried 2 different Macs and 3 PCs) does not even register the flash drive- it does not show up in Finder or in My…
user23166
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Can I disconnect a USB drive while copying is paused in Windows 8?
As you all probably know by now, Windows 8 consolidates all simultaneous file copy operations into one single dialog. Also, wonder of wonders, you can now pause any of the operations as well!
What I want to know is, if you pause a file copy to/from…
Karan
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Eject/dismount a drive using PowerShell
I would like to eject/dismount an external USB drive via PowerShell.
Meaning, I want to replicate exactly the behaviour of these UI actions (Ejecting drive via Windows UI):
Currently I am using this script:
$drive_letter="G"
$vol = get-wmiobject…
user73235
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It takes a *very* long time to eject my flashdrives
I am running a fresh install on Debian 8, and I often have to wait a ridiculous time before my flashdrives get ejected (ranging from 1 to 10.. 15 minutes). During this time, I can't access anything concerning the drive because I get the error An…
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How to unmount a VHD via command line in Windows 10
I need to unmount a VHD with a batch script in Windows 10. The only solution I found online was directed at Windows 7 and involved Diskpart. Are there any other native Windows command line tools available that can do the job?
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"Disk Not Ejected Properly" Alert after computer goes to sleep USB3 only
Ok so this is a relatively new one for me, I recently upgraded my computer, both to Yosemite and installing a USB3 Card from Sonnet. I have downloaded the drivers for the Sonnet card, and everything works great with it. However when my computer…
