djesteban Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 (edited) Ok, so this is super easy to do in Linux/*nix systems through a terminal, but how the hell do I do this in Windows?!?! So I have this external eSATA drive and I want to unmount the drive before I take it offline, anyone know how to unmount a drive (can be through command line, I don't mind) Thanks in advance!! Edited November 18, 2009 by djesteban Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleNeutrino Veteran Posted November 18, 2009 Veteran Share Posted November 18, 2009 in the taskbar next to the clock there should be a icon for remove external device. double click on it and it should bring up the prompts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djesteban Posted November 18, 2009 Author Share Posted November 18, 2009 in the taskbar next to the clock there should be a icon for remove external device. double click on it and it should bring up the prompts. Nice try :p But this is not an external USB drive, it is eSATA and it's treated like a normal internal SATA drive. So basically what I am asking for is... how do you unmount an internal SATA drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olemus Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Some more info would be nice, which version of windows would be a good start. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdood Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 mountvol X: /D or "remove" from diskpart or the disk manager in the management console? This unmounts the volume, but it doesn't make it okay to physically remove the drive. You could try to remove the device in device manager, but unless you get the notification area icon, Windows is not treating the drive as removable. Does the controller and drive actually support hot swapping? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djesteban Posted November 18, 2009 Author Share Posted November 18, 2009 mountvol X: /D or "remove" from diskpart or the disk manager in the management console?This unmounts the volume, but it doesn't make it okay to physically remove the drive. You could try to remove the device in device manager, but unless you get the notification area icon, Windows is not treating the drive as removable. Does the controller and drive actually support hot swapping? Well, it's an external eSATA hard drive tray. Now, I don't think you can hot swap per say, but that's why I was thinking about manually unmounting the drive, then power off the tray, remove the HDD, put the new HDD and power on the HDD tray. Then I would do a rescan disk in Disk Management. Do you think that would work... or do I need to actually shut down every time I want to change the disk. Ohh and for your information, here's the tray I am using Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hdood Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Well it sounds like the port you have it plugged into is not an eSATA hot swap port. You could try uninstall it in device manager and unplugging it, that's all I can think of, but you might end up crashing the machine. You'll find out soon enough. I don't believe this is a supported scenario in Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Veteran Posted November 18, 2009 Veteran Share Posted November 18, 2009 It should be safe to unplug the drive after you mark it "Offline" in Disk Management. There's a 3rd-party hot-swap tool as well. http://mt-naka.com/hotswap/index_enu.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piggy Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 Try Hotswap. It works for my eSata Freeagent. http://mt-naka.com/hotswap/index_enu.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djesteban Posted November 19, 2009 Author Share Posted November 19, 2009 Well it sounds like the port you have it plugged into is not an eSATA hot swap port. You could try uninstall it in device manager and unplugging it, that's all I can think of, but you might end up crashing the machine. You'll find out soon enough. I don't believe this is a supported scenario in Windows. A BIG star for you as you found the solution to my problem :) I had the dock plugged to one of my standard eSATA port. I plugged it in the "hot swap" eSATA port and voil?!!! I can now switch the unit on or off and change the HDD. I didn't know there was a specific port for this, but now I know thanks to you! Thanks man and everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SyntaxError Posted December 24, 2009 Share Posted December 24, 2009 nevermind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted March 13, 2012 MVC Share Posted March 13, 2012 Sweet Thanks for the recommendation. I always hated just turning off the power to my sata dock. and yes Google brought me here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ybrett23 Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Well it sounds like the port you have it plugged into is not an eSATA hot swap port. You could try uninstall it in device manager and unplugging it, that's all I can think of, but you might end up crashing the machine. You'll find out soon enough. I don't believe this is a supported scenario in Windows. i can agree with this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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