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Re-detect a USB device without Unplugging and Replugging
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Do we have a way to make windows detect a usb device once it is marked for 'safe removal' Details : I use windows xp with all latest patches, i use a usb flash device to exchange data between work and home. Every time i unplug the usb drive using the system tray icon, the un-mountings of the usb device happens without any glitches. But i want the device to be re-detected without a physical removal & plugging. i tried the "Add Hardware" .. i fails with the below shown message "Windows cannot use this hardware device because it has been prepared for 'safe removal', but it has not been removed from the computer. (Code 47) To fix this problem, unplug this device from your computer and then plug it in again." though this pretty much explains what i should do, is there a way to bypass this and re-detect my device. Thanks |
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Re-detect a USB device without Unplugging and Replugging
Why would you use the safely remove device if you don't want to remove it? When you tell Windows
that you want to remove the device the system wil make it so that no information can be written to it, that way nothing is lost. Only way to get it to be recognized is to remove and reinsert. -- Dave Vair CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+ "Nanda" wrote in message ... synopsis : Do we have a way to make windows detect a usb device once it is marked for 'safe removal' Details : I use windows xp with all latest patches, i use a usb flash device to exchange data between work and home. Every time i unplug the usb drive using the system tray icon, the un-mountings of the usb device happens without any glitches. But i want the device to be re-detected without a physical removal & plugging. i tried the "Add Hardware" . i fails with the below shown message "Windows cannot use this hardware device because it has been prepared for 'safe removal', but it has not been removed from the computer. (Code 47) To fix this problem, unplug this device from your computer and then plug it in again." though this pretty much explains what i should do, is there a way to bypass this and re-detect my device. Thanks |
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Yes it's possible to clear the remove flag and reenumerate the device
using API, though I can't remember any ready tool for this. --PA "Nanda" wrote in message ... synopsis : Do we have a way to make windows detect a usb device once it is marked for 'safe removal' Details : I use windows xp with all latest patches, i use a usb flash device to exchange data between work and home. Every time i unplug the usb drive using the system tray icon, the un-mountings of the usb device happens without any glitches. But i want the device to be re-detected without a physical removal & plugging. i tried the "Add Hardware" . i fails with the below shown message "Windows cannot use this hardware device because it has been prepared for 'safe removal', but it has not been removed from the computer. (Code 47) To fix this problem, unplug this device from your computer and then plug it in again." though this pretty much explains what i should do, is there a way to bypass this and re-detect my device. Thanks |
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Re-detect a USB device without Unplugging and Replugging
You could deactivate and then reactivate it instaed my means of Microsoft DEVCON: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272 Samples: devcon disable USB\VID_067B*PID_2517\6*12115AD4* devcon enable USB\VID_067B*PID_2517\6*12115AD4* The device ID you can get by means of my tool ListUsbDrives which comes with my USBDLM tool: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/usbdlm.zip Use the 'Ctrl DevID'. The & character has a special meaning on the XP commandline, so the best way is to replace it by asterisks which DEVCON sees as wildcard for 'any char'. Uwe Nanda wrote: synopsis : Do we have a way to make windows detect a usb device once it is marked for 'safe removal' Details : I use windows xp with all latest patches, i use a usb flash device to exchange data between work and home. Every time i unplug the usb drive using the system tray icon, the un-mountings of the usb device happens without any glitches. But i want the device to be re-detected without a physical removal & plugging. i tried the "Add Hardware" . i fails with the below shown message "Windows cannot use this hardware device because it has been prepared for 'safe removal', but it has not been removed from the computer. (Code 47) To fix this problem, unplug this device from your computer and then plug it in again." though this pretty much explains what i should do, is there a way to bypass this and re-detect my device. Thanks |
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Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it
I needed this too for testing a launcher on my USB flash drive. As I used an old computer without front USB ports and I was too lazy to stand up each time and replug the memory stick I searched for a solution in web. All solutions I found need the Microsoft command line tool DevCon, which is not very straight forward to use, so I tried to find another one. It needs also some clicks, but does without extra tools:
1. push [win]+[Pause] to show the "System Properties" dialog or just pick it from the Control Panel 2. switch to Hardware tab and click on "Device Manager" 3. There you click on "Universal Serial Bus controllers" to open it 4. Below that you see 5 (maybe more or less) items called "USB root Hub". If you know which of them your device is connected to (i.e. through experience) right click it and select "disable", otherwise do that with all of them. WARNING: doing so will disconnect all connected USB devices! 5. Right click the disabled items and select "enable". Your devices are then detected again. EggHeadCafe - .NET Developer Portal of Choice http://www.eggheadcafe.com/default.aspx?ref=ng |
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Mehrdad Mirreza wrote in message ...
I needed this too for testing a launcher on my USB flash drive. Needed what? -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com |
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Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it
On Jan 15, 10:52*pm, Mehrdad Mirreza wrote:
On Jan 15, 10:52 pm, Mehrdad Mirreza wrote: I needed this too for testing a launcher on my USB flash drive. As I used an old computer without front USB ports and I was too lazy to stand up each time and replug the memory stick I searched for a solution in web. All solutions I found need the Microsoft command line tool DevCon, which is not very straight forward to use [...] Also, you are too lazy to figure it out yourself. It works like a charm for my Kingston thumb drive. D:\ devcon remove *Kingston* USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_KINGSTON&PROD_DATATRAVELER_2.0&RE V_PMAP \001D92A85EAA5B8B040502A D&0: Removed 1 device(s) removed. -- Windows explorer has the Kingston USB drive letter removed D:\tmp5\i386 devcon rescan Scanning for new hardware. Scanning completed. -- Windows explorer has the Kingston USB drive letter reappeared |
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Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it
@Bob (Opinicus): This was a reply to
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/...device-wi.aspx .. I don't know why it appears in this forum! What I needed is what is written in the subject: "Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it" "Opinicus" wrote: Mehrdad Mirreza wrote in message ... I needed this too for testing a launcher on my USB flash drive. Needed what? -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com |
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Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it
@Harry: Yes you are right, but I already wrote that I am lazy and my solution
was also for lazy people like me, who don't what to start a command session and type that letters, but do just some clicks. I must admit though, that your solution using wildcards has the great benefit that it doesn't need the Windows Device Manager or nother tools to get the device ID at all (like proposed by Uwe Sieber in the original thread http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/...evice-wi.aspx). So it can be used to automate the "re-plugging" process using a batch file, which then reduces the work to a doubleclick. But I still remain with my solution as the easiest one - MiMe "Harry" wrote: On Jan 15, 10:52 pm, Mehrdad Mirreza wrote: On Jan 15, 10:52 pm, Mehrdad Mirreza wrote: I needed this too for testing a launcher on my USB flash drive. As I used an old computer without front USB ports and I was too lazy to stand up each time and replug the memory stick I searched for a solution in web. All solutions I found need the Microsoft command line tool DevCon, which is not very straight forward to use [...] Also, you are too lazy to figure it out yourself. It works like a charm for my Kingston thumb drive. D:\ devcon remove *Kingston* USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_KINGSTON&PROD_DATATRAVELER_2.0&RE V_PMAP \001D92A85EAA5B8B040502A D&0: Removed 1 device(s) removed. -- Windows explorer has the Kingston USB drive letter removed D:\tmp5\i386 devcon rescan Scanning for new hardware. Scanning completed. -- Windows explorer has the Kingston USB drive letter reappeared |
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can u plz tell me how to achieve this using a batch file.? thnx nd nice job.
Harry wrote: Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it 21-Jan-09 On Jan 15, 10:52=A0pm, Mehrdad Mirreza wrote: On Jan 15, 10:52 pm, Mehrdad Mirreza wrote: Also, you are too lazy to figure it out yourself. It works like a charm for my Kingston thumb drive. D:\ devcon remove *Kingston* USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_KINGSTON&PROD_DATATRAVELER_2.0&RE V_PMAP \001D92A85EAA5B8B040502A D&0: Removed 1 device(s) removed. -- Windows explorer has the Kingston USB drive letter removed D:\tmp5\i386 devcon rescan Scanning for new hardware. Scanning completed. -- Windows explorer has the Kingston USB drive letter reappeared Previous Posts In This Thread: On Sunday, April 08, 2007 4:24 AM Nand wrote: Re-detect a USB device without Unplugging and Replugging synopsis : Do we have a way to make windows detect a usb device once it is marked for 'safe removal' Details : I use windows xp with all latest patches, i use a usb flash device to exchange data between work and home. Every time i unplug the usb drive using the system tray icon, the un-mountings of the usb device happens without any glitches. But i want the device to be re-detected without a physical removal & plugging. i tried the "Add Hardware" .. i fails with the below shown message "Windows cannot use this hardware device because it has been prepared for 'safe removal', but it has not been removed from the computer. (Code 47) To fix this problem, unplug this device from your computer and then plug it in again." though this pretty much explains what i should do, is there a way to bypass this and re-detect my device. Thanks On Sunday, April 08, 2007 10:14 AM David Vair wrote: Why would you use the safely remove device if you don't want to remove it? Why would you use the safely remove device if you don't want to remove it? When you tell Windows that you want to remove the device the system wil make it so that no information can be written to it, that way nothing is lost. Only way to get it to be recognized is to remove and reinsert. -- Dave Vair CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+ "Nanda" wrote in message ... On Monday, April 09, 2007 7:53 AM Pavel A. wrote: Yes it's possible to clear the remove flag and reenumerate the deviceusing Yes it is possible to clear the remove flag and reenumerate the device using API, though I cannot remember any ready tool for this. --PA On Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:09 AM Uwe Sieber wrote: You could deactivate and then reactivate it instaed my meansof Microsoft You could deactivate and then reactivate it instaed my means of Microsoft DEVCON: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272 Samples: devcon disable USB\VID_067B*PID_2517\6*12115AD4* devcon enable USB\VID_067B*PID_2517\6*12115AD4* The device ID you can get by means of my tool ListUsbDrives which comes with my USBDLM tool: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/usbdlm.zip Use the 'Ctrl DevID'. The & character has a special meaning on the XP commandline, so the best way is to replace it by asterisks which DEVCON sees as wildcard for 'any char'. Uwe Nanda wrote: On Friday, January 16, 2009 1:52 AM Mehrdad Mirreza wrote: Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it I needed this too for testing a launcher on my USB flash drive. As I used an old computer without front USB ports and I was too lazy to stand up each time and replug the memory stick I searched for a solution in web. All solutions I found need the Microsoft command line tool DevCon, which is not very straight forward to use, so I tried to find another one. It needs also some clicks, but does without extra tools: 1. push [win]+[Pause] to show the "System Properties" dialog or just pick it from the Control Panel 2. switch to Hardware tab and click on "Device Manager" 3. There you click on "Universal Serial Bus controllers" to open it 4. Below that you see 5 (maybe more or less) items called "USB root Hub". If you know which of them your device is connected to (i.e. through experience) right click it and select "disable", otherwise do that with all of them. WARNING: doing so will disconnect all connected USB devices! 5. Right click the disabled items and select "enable". Your devices are then detected again. On Friday, January 16, 2009 2:33 AM Opinicus wrote: Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it Needed what? -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com On Sunday, January 18, 2009 6:38 PM MehrdadMirrez wrote: Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it @Bob (Opinicus): This was a reply to http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/...device-wi.aspx .. I don't know why it appears in this forum! What I needed is what is written in the subject: "Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it" "Opinicus" wrote: On Sunday, January 18, 2009 7:28 PM MehrdadMirrez wrote: Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it @Harry: Yes you are right, but I already wrote that I am lazy and my solution was also for lazy people like me, who don't what to start a command session and type that letters, but do just some clicks. I must admit though, that your solution using wildcards has the great benefit that it doesn't need the Windows Device Manager or nother tools to get the device ID at all (like proposed by Uwe Sieber in the original thread http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/...evice-wi.aspx). So it can be used to automate the "re-plugging" process using a batch file, which then reduces the work to a doubleclick. But I still remain with my solution as the easiest one - MiMe "Harry" wrote: On Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:27 AM Engin Tarhan wrote: As you have volunteered to give this pice of mind boggling wisdom without As you have volunteered to give this pice of mind boggling wisdom without being asked, I will also volunteer to give a piece of my mind, and I will not be as gentle as the other fellas who have read your message and just laughed it off. You may think that being lazy is a quality to be proud of, but the information your are giving is potentially dangerous! A number of clicks and keypresses in a sensitive area of the OS which should be tinkered by people who know what they're doing is not going to provide any benefit to the mainstream of the computer users, the "normal" users as opposed to the lazy one(s). I believe that this fantastic way of showing your right earlobe with your left hand will be adopted by no more than a handful of users who like to think of themselves as being eccentric. If you were as clever as you're lazy, you'd think of using a USB hub to bring that flash drive near your hand. Good luck Engin Mehrdad Mirreza wrote in message ... On Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:19 AM Harry wrote: Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it On Jan 15, 10:52=A0pm, Mehrdad Mirreza wrote: On Jan 15, 10:52 pm, Mehrdad Mirreza wrote: Also, you are too lazy to figure it out yourself. It works like a charm for my Kingston thumb drive. D:\ devcon remove *Kingston* USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_KINGSTON&PROD_DATATRAVELER_2.0&RE V_PMAP \001D92A85EAA5B8B040502A D&0: Removed 1 device(s) removed. -- Windows explorer has the Kingston USB drive letter removed D:\tmp5\i386 devcon rescan Scanning for new hardware. Scanning completed. -- Windows explorer has the Kingston USB drive letter reappeared Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice The Software Project Loan Shark! http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...ject-loan.aspx |
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can u plz tell me how to achieve this using a batch file.? thnx nd nice job. Harry wrote: Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it 21-Jan-09 On Jan 15, 10:52=A0pm, Mehrdad Mirreza wrote: On Jan 15, 10:52 pm, Mehrdad Mirreza wrote: Also, you are too lazy to figure it out yourself. It works like a charm for my Kingston thumb drive. D:\ devcon remove *Kingston* USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_KINGSTON&PROD_DATATRAVELER_2.0&RE V_PMAP \001D92A85EAA5B8B040502A D&0: Removed 1 device(s) removed. -- Windows explorer has the Kingston USB drive letter removed D:\tmp5\i386 devcon rescan Scanning for new hardware. Scanning completed. -- Windows explorer has the Kingston USB drive letter reappeared Previous Posts In This Thread: On Sunday, April 08, 2007 4:24 AM Nand wrote: Re-detect a USB device without Unplugging and Replugging synopsis : Do we have a way to make windows detect a usb device once it is marked for 'safe removal' Details : I use windows xp with all latest patches, i use a usb flash device to exchange data between work and home. Every time i unplug the usb drive using the system tray icon, the un-mountings of the usb device happens without any glitches. But i want the device to be re-detected without a physical removal & plugging. i tried the "Add Hardware" ... i fails with the below shown message "Windows cannot use this hardware device because it has been prepared for 'safe removal', but it has not been removed from the computer. (Code 47) To fix this problem, unplug this device from your computer and then plug it in again." though this pretty much explains what i should do, is there a way to bypass this and re-detect my device. Thanks On Sunday, April 08, 2007 10:14 AM David Vair wrote: Why would you use the safely remove device if you don't want to remove it? Why would you use the safely remove device if you don't want to remove it? When you tell Windows that you want to remove the device the system wil make it so that no information can be written to it, that way nothing is lost. Only way to get it to be recognized is to remove and reinsert. -- Dave Vair CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+ "Nanda" wrote in message ... On Monday, April 09, 2007 7:53 AM Pavel A. wrote: Yes it's possible to clear the remove flag and reenumerate the deviceusing Yes it is possible to clear the remove flag and reenumerate the device using API, though I cannot remember any ready tool for this. --PA On Tuesday, April 10, 2007 3:09 AM Uwe Sieber wrote: You could deactivate and then reactivate it instaed my meansof Microsoft You could deactivate and then reactivate it instaed my means of Microsoft DEVCON: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/311272 Samples: devcon disable USB\VID_067B*PID_2517\6*12115AD4* devcon enable USB\VID_067B*PID_2517\6*12115AD4* The device ID you can get by means of my tool ListUsbDrives which comes with my USBDLM tool: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/usbdlm.zip Use the 'Ctrl DevID'. The & character has a special meaning on the XP commandline, so the best way is to replace it by asterisks which DEVCON sees as wildcard for 'any char'. Uwe Nanda wrote: On Friday, January 16, 2009 1:52 AM Mehrdad Mirreza wrote: Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it I needed this too for testing a launcher on my USB flash drive. As I used an old computer without front USB ports and I was too lazy to stand up each time and replug the memory stick I searched for a solution in web. All solutions I found need the Microsoft command line tool DevCon, which is not very straight forward to use, so I tried to find another one. It needs also some clicks, but does without extra tools: 1. push [win]+[Pause] to show the "System Properties" dialog or just pick it from the Control Panel 2. switch to Hardware tab and click on "Device Manager" 3. There you click on "Universal Serial Bus controllers" to open it 4. Below that you see 5 (maybe more or less) items called "USB root Hub". If you know which of them your device is connected to (i.e. through experience) right click it and select "disable", otherwise do that with all of them. WARNING: doing so will disconnect all connected USB devices! 5. Right click the disabled items and select "enable". Your devices are then detected again. On Friday, January 16, 2009 2:33 AM Opinicus wrote: Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it Needed what? -- Bob http://www.kanyak.com On Sunday, January 18, 2009 6:38 PM MehrdadMirrez wrote: Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it @Bob (Opinicus): This was a reply to http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/...device-wi.aspx ... I don't know why it appears in this forum! What I needed is what is written in the subject: "Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it" "Opinicus" wrote: On Sunday, January 18, 2009 7:28 PM MehrdadMirrez wrote: Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it @Harry: Yes you are right, but I already wrote that I am lazy and my solution was also for lazy people like me, who don't what to start a command session and type that letters, but do just some clicks. I must admit though, that your solution using wildcards has the great benefit that it doesn't need the Windows Device Manager or nother tools to get the device ID at all (like proposed by Uwe Sieber in the original thread http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/...evice-wi.aspx). So it can be used to automate the "re-plugging" process using a batch file, which then reduces the work to a doubleclick. But I still remain with my solution as the easiest one - MiMe "Harry" wrote: On Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:27 AM Engin Tarhan wrote: As you have volunteered to give this pice of mind boggling wisdom without As you have volunteered to give this pice of mind boggling wisdom without being asked, I will also volunteer to give a piece of my mind, and I will not be as gentle as the other fellas who have read your message and just laughed it off. You may think that being lazy is a quality to be proud of, but the information your are giving is potentially dangerous! A number of clicks and keypresses in a sensitive area of the OS which should be tinkered by people who know what they're doing is not going to provide any benefit to the mainstream of the computer users, the "normal" users as opposed to the lazy one(s). I believe that this fantastic way of showing your right earlobe with your left hand will be adopted by no more than a handful of users who like to think of themselves as being eccentric. If you were as clever as you're lazy, you'd think of using a USB hub to bring that flash drive near your hand. Good luck Engin Mehrdad Mirreza wrote in message ... On Wednesday, January 21, 2009 12:19 AM Harry wrote: Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it On Jan 15, 10:52=A0pm, Mehrdad Mirreza wrote: On Jan 15, 10:52 pm, Mehrdad Mirreza wrote: Also, you are too lazy to figure it out yourself. It works like a charm for my Kingston thumb drive. D:\ devcon remove *Kingston* USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_KINGSTON&PROD_DATATRAVELER_2.0&RE V_PMAP \001D92A85EAA5B8B040502A D&0: Removed 1 device(s) removed. -- Windows explorer has the Kingston USB drive letter removed D:\tmp5\i386 devcon rescan Scanning for new hardware. Scanning completed. -- Windows explorer has the Kingston USB drive letter reappeared Submitted via EggHeadCafe - Software Developer Portal of Choice The Software Project Loan Shark! http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials...ject-loan.aspx |
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Place the lines in a text file and change the extension to .BAT
saad wrote: can u plz tell me how to achieve this using a batch file.? thnx nd nice job. Harry wrote: Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it 21-Jan-09 On Jan 15, 10:52=A0pm, Mehrdad Mirreza wrote: On Jan 15, 10:52 pm, Mehrdad Mirreza wrote: Also, you are too lazy to figure it out yourself. It works like a charm for my Kingston thumb drive. D:\ devcon remove *Kingston* USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_KINGSTON&PROD_DATATRAVELER_2.0&RE V_PMAP \001D92A85EAA5B8B040502A D&0: Removed 1 device(s) removed. -- Windows explorer has the Kingston USB drive letter removed D:\tmp5\i386 devcon rescan Scanning for new hardware. Scanning completed. -- Windows explorer has the Kingston USB drive letter reappeared Previous Posts In This Thread: On Sunday, April 08, 2007 4:24 AM Nand wrote: Re-detect a USB device without Unplugging and Replugging synopsis : Do we have a way to make windows detect a usb device once it is marked for 'safe removal' Details : I use windows xp with all latest patches, i use a usb flash device to exchange data between work and home. Every time i unplug the usb drive using the system tray icon, the un-mountings of the usb device happens without any glitches. But i want the device to be re-detected without a physical removal & plugging. i tried the "Add Hardware" . i fails with the below shown message "Windows cannot use this hardware device because it has been prepared for 'safe removal', but it has not been removed from the computer. (Code 47) To fix this problem, unplug this device from your computer and then plug it in again." though this pretty much explains what i should do, is there a way to bypass this and re-detect my device. Thanks On Sunday, April 08, 2007 10:14 AM David Vair wrote: Why would you use the safely remove device if you don't want to remove it? Why would you use the safely remove device if you don't want to remove it? When you tell Windows that you want to remove the device the system wil make it so that no information can be written to it, that way nothing is lost. Only way to get it to be recognized is to remove and reinsert. |
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Place the lines in a text file and change the extension to .BAT
saad wrote: can u plz tell me how to achieve this using a batch file.? thnx nd nice job. Harry wrote: Eject and re-detect a usb drive without unplugging it 21-Jan-09 On Jan 15, 10:52=A0pm, Mehrdad Mirreza wrote: On Jan 15, 10:52 pm, Mehrdad Mirreza wrote: Also, you are too lazy to figure it out yourself. It works like a charm for my Kingston thumb drive. D:\ devcon remove *Kingston* USBSTOR\DISK&VEN_KINGSTON&PROD_DATATRAVELER_2.0&RE V_PMAP \001D92A85EAA5B8B040502A D&0: Removed 1 device(s) removed. -- Windows explorer has the Kingston USB drive letter removed D:\tmp5\i386 devcon rescan Scanning for new hardware. Scanning completed. -- Windows explorer has the Kingston USB drive letter reappeared Previous Posts In This Thread: On Sunday, April 08, 2007 4:24 AM Nand wrote: Re-detect a USB device without Unplugging and Replugging synopsis : Do we have a way to make windows detect a usb device once it is marked for 'safe removal' Details : I use windows xp with all latest patches, i use a usb flash device to exchange data between work and home. Every time i unplug the usb drive using the system tray icon, the un-mountings of the usb device happens without any glitches. But i want the device to be re-detected without a physical removal & plugging. i tried the "Add Hardware" . i fails with the below shown message "Windows cannot use this hardware device because it has been prepared for 'safe removal', but it has not been removed from the computer. (Code 47) To fix this problem, unplug this device from your computer and then plug it in again." though this pretty much explains what i should do, is there a way to bypass this and re-detect my device. Thanks On Sunday, April 08, 2007 10:14 AM David Vair wrote: Why would you use the safely remove device if you don't want to remove it? Why would you use the safely remove device if you don't want to remove it? When you tell Windows that you want to remove the device the system wil make it so that no information can be written to it, that way nothing is lost. Only way to get it to be recognized is to remove and reinsert. |
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