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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!
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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.
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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!