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Can you "reattach" a USB drive after safely removing without physically re-inserting?
Hi Everyone,
Quick question, we are doing some troubleshooting on a box remotely and need to frequently "safely remove" the external drives and reinitialize them to test a few scenarios. Is there anyway to have it "refind" the USB drive after safely removing without rebooting the machine?
No one is physically there on-site. So despite the fact we are "safely removing" its never getting unplugged (hence why a restart has it show up again . . . but is just time consuming).
Thanks!
Quick question, we are doing some troubleshooting on a box remotely and need to frequently "safely remove" the external drives and reinitialize them to test a few scenarios. Is there anyway to have it "refind" the USB drive after safely removing without rebooting the machine?
No one is physically there on-site. So despite the fact we are "safely removing" its never getting unplugged (hence why a restart has it show up again . . . but is just time consuming).
Thanks!
I'm not sure if it will work or not, haven't tested it, but you could try "detecting hardware changes" in the device manager.
I just tried it, "detecting hardware changes" doesn't work.
It will work if you remove the device in the Device Manager rather than safely remove it. If that works for you.
It will work if you remove the device in the Device Manager rather than safely remove it. If that works for you.
can you reboot the machine remotely and retain success?
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Yes we can. Was just looking for a shortcut to make things faster.
try logofff hen logon then
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Tried. Didn't work. Was just curious. We can reboot worst case. Just takes a long time to restart.
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Thx!