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is there a way to mount and dismount a connected harddrive through a script or a simple utility software in Windows 8.1?
Basically, I have a hard drive in the ultrabay slot of my ThinkPad (instead of the dvd-drive). When booting the system, this hard drive is automatically being mounted and visible to me. Using the icon in the taskbar I can unmount it. Unfortunately, it is then only available again when I reboot the system.
So I wanted to ask if there is any command line script I can execute to dismount the drive and mount it again with another script without having to reboot?
This way I could call the unmount-script after booting, so the drive isn't always running, only when I need some stuff from it, I call the mount-script and then can access the files.
Would be great if anybody has any ideas on how to solve this! Thank you!
It does, but this requires me to lift up the ThinkPad, flip it over, use both hands to unlock and remove it and put it back in. Also, at the current state it automatically mounts the device when I boot up. Most of the times though, I don't need the contents of that HDD... – florianbaethge – 2014-01-21T15:20:53.667
OK, based on that I think read here. http://superuser.com/questions/121957/how-to-un-eject-a-usb-flash-drive-eject-is-easy-safely-remove-hardware-b or here http://www.raymond.cc/blog/remount-ejected-or-safely-removed-usb-device-without-unplug-and-reinsert/ First thought is that maybe we can automate a devcon.exe session to automagically remount https://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272
– Knuckle-Dragger – 2014-01-21T15:23:14.207