My "remove hardware" icon is gone. How can I dismount an external drive?

[Guest Al Dykes]

The "remove hardware" icon on my toolbar decides to hide sometimes,

making it hard to safely dismount my external disk.

 

How do I get it back or otherwise dismount the disk?

 

Thanks

 

 

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Al Dykes

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[Guest PD43]

Re: My "remove hardware" icon is gone. How can I dismount an external drive?

 

Re: My "remove hardware" icon is gone. How can I dismount an external drive?

 

adykes@panix.com (Al Dykes) wrote:

>How do I get it back or otherwise dismount the disk?

 

If it's not being written to, just unplug it.

[Guest Alan Edwards]

Re: My "remove hardware" icon is gone. How can I dismount an external drive?

 

Re: My "remove hardware" icon is gone. How can I dismount an external drive?

 

I can't tell you how to get it back but try this as an alternative

from the Start-Run box:

 

RUNDLL32.EXE shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll

 

....Alan

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http://dts-l.com/index.htm

 

 

 

 

On 24 Mar 2008 22:36:43 -0400, in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,

adykes@panix.com (Al Dykes) wrote:

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>The "remove hardware" icon on my toolbar decides to hide sometimes,

>making it hard to safely dismount my external disk.

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>How do I get it back or otherwise dismount the disk?

>

>Thanks

[Guest PaulM]

Re: My "remove hardware" icon is gone. How can I dismount an external drive?

 

Re: My "remove hardware" icon is gone. How can I dismount an external drive?

 

Have you tried, right click start, proterties,notifcation area, uncheck hide

inactive icons.

 

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"Al Dykes" <adykes@panix.com> wrote in message

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> The "remove hardware" icon on my toolbar decides to hide sometimes,

> making it hard to safely dismount my external disk.

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> How do I get it back or otherwise dismount the disk?

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> Thanks

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> Al Dykes

> News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is

> advertising.

> - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail

>

[Guest Anteaus]

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Re: My "remove hardware" icon is gone. How can I dismount an exter

 

I saw a report elsewhere of a recent update causing exactly this trouble.

 

"PaulM" wrote:

> Have you tried, right click start, proterties,notifcation area, uncheck hide

> inactive icons.

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> "Al Dykes" <adykes@panix.com> wrote in message

> news:fs9ofr$56e$1@panix5.panix.com...

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> > The "remove hardware" icon on my toolbar decides to hide sometimes,

> > making it hard to safely dismount my external disk.

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> > How do I get it back or otherwise dismount the disk?

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> > Thanks

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> > Al Dykes

> > News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is

> > advertising.

> > - Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail

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[Guest Al Dykes]

Re: My "remove hardware" icon is gone. How can I dismount an external drive?

 

Re: My "remove hardware" icon is gone. How can I dismount an external drive?

 

In article <tupgu3th84bio6ivrgql0aqsmr9g8klvh1@4ax.com>,

Alan Edwards <edwards@southcom.com.au> wrote:

>I can't tell you how to get it back but try this as an alternative

>from the Start-Run box:

>

>RUNDLL32.EXE shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll

>

>...Alan

>--

>Alan Edwards, MS MVP Windows - Internet Explorer

>http://dts-l.com/index.htm

 

 

 

TNX. It dismounted the device and the icon reappeared.

 

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Al Dykes

News is something someone wants to suppress, everything else is advertising.

- Lord Northcliffe, publisher of the Daily Mail

[Guest M.I.5¾]

Re: My "remove hardware" icon is gone. How can I dismount an external drive?

 

Re: My "remove hardware" icon is gone. How can I dismount an external drive?

 

 

"PD43" <pauld1943@comcast.net> wrote in message

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> adykes@panix.com (Al Dykes) wrote:

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>>How do I get it back or otherwise dismount the disk?

>

> If it's not being written to, just unplug it.

 

That is the most stupid piece of advice possible.

 

If the drive requires to be stopped using 'Safely remove hardware' then

write back caching is in use. Such a drive should never be unplugged before

forcing a cache flush (thats what stopping the drive does). If you do then

whatever data is in the cache does not get written. Whole file systems have

been destroyed by not flushing the cache.

 

For removable drives and unless you really need the extra speed that write

back caching offers, I always suggest configuring the drive for optimize for

quick removal (write-through caching). This side steps the whole problem*.

 

*though I have become aware that Windows XP has a subtle bug that in some

installations, optimize for quick removal only half works in that you can't

flush the cache (because 'safely remove ...' is not offered), but

nevertheless write back cacheing is in use.

[Guest PD43]

Re: My "remove hardware" icon is gone. How can I dismount an external drive?

 

Re: My "remove hardware" icon is gone. How can I dismount an external drive?

 

"M.I.5¾" <no.one@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote:

>> If it's not being written to, just unplug it.

>

>That is the most stupid piece of advice possible.

 

So soddy, ol' chap... but it's worked for me for years.

[Guest M.I.5¾]

Re: My "remove hardware" icon is gone. How can I dismount an external drive?

 

Re: My "remove hardware" icon is gone. How can I dismount an external drive?

 

 

"PD43" <pauld1943@comcast.net> wrote in message

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> "M.I.5¾" <no.one@no.where.NO_SPAM.co.uk> wrote:

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>>> If it's not being written to, just unplug it.

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>>That is the most stupid piece of advice possible.

>

> So soddy, ol' chap... but it's worked for me for years.

 

So you obviously have write-through cacheing. It doesn't mean every body

else does.