How to eject/dismount an external USB drive from command l..

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Ok, I could dismount an external USB harddisc by left-clicking on the USB-Icon in the Systray
and choose the appropriate drive to dismount it.
But I want to do this from command line.

How do I do this? I have heard from a devcon.exe HardwareDevice Manager tool.
Does that run under WIn2000 too?

How do I code a disconnect of drive T: with devcon ?

Thomas

 

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"Thomas Stein" <tstein@email.com> wrote in message
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> Ok, I could dismount an external USB harddisc by left-clicking on the USB-Icon in the Systray
> and choose the appropriate drive to dismount it.
> But I want to do this from command line.
>
> How do I do this? I have heard from a devcon.exe Hardware Device Manager tool.
> Does that run under WIn2000 too?
>
It is part of the Windows DDK, and does run under Win2K.

> How do I code a disconnect of drive T: with devcon ?
>
It doesn't know about drive letters.
Try this. substring is from listclass output.

devcon listclass diskdrive
devcon remove *substring*