Error message after removing USB Hard Drive.

[Guest]

We are using two USB 160 GB Western Digital Hard Drives to back up our
system. Whe we disconnect one hard drive to swap with the other we are
getting a error message with regards to not finding the drive. Is there a
way to eleminate the message so that the drive can be swapped with out any
interface by the person changing out the drive.

Thanks

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

We are using two USB 160 GB Western Digital Hard Drives to back up our
system. Whe we disconnect one hard drive to swap with the other we are
getting a error message with regards to not finding the drive. Is there a
way to eleminate the message so that the drive can be swapped with out any
interface by the person changing out the drive.

Thanks

Hi,

This may work:

Put deveject.exe in a batch file that the person changing out the drive
runs before disconnecting the drive.

deveject.exe is available here (includes C++ source code as well):

ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/listings/0316-208.zip

For help, run deveject.exe /? in a command prompt.

Works for Windows 2000/XP/2003.


An example using the EjectName command line switch:
deveject.exe -EjectName:"USB Mass Storage Device"


Here is the readme.txt file, translated from German to English (by me):

DevEject -- Safely remove hardware automatically, for Windows 2000/XP/2003
=================================================================

DevEject enables you to programmatically stop mass storage devices such
as FireWire disks or USB-sticks

DevEject.exe -- the compiled executable
DevEject.cpp -- Source code in C++