How to mount and unmount hard drives under Windows (the unix way)
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On my work computer I have two USB hard drives that I use rarely. They have a power save mode that sends them into sleep after a couple of minutes of them being idle. Whenever I open a context menu on a file, the drives are woken up (most likely caused by the "send to" handler). So I eject the driv…
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Fix for: How to mount and unmount hard drives under Windows (the unix way)
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Remove the drive letters using or . Without a drive letter, they won't appear under Computer or Send To. Using will actually dismount the device. On older Windows versions, you only have , which only unassigns the drive letter, but keeps the volume …
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