Comments on: Remount Ejected or Safely Removed USB Device Without Unplug and Reinsert

By: Patty

Patty — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:13:20 +0000

I am running Windows 7 Ultimate. As in post #34, you must eject the disk first (for me, in the tray where the clock is). Then you should be able to disable the device and then enable. After that, you will have to restart. A few annoying clicks beats taking my desk apart any day! Thanks for the tip!

By: Al W

Al W — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:42:32 +0000

I found that the restart windows message will appear if the device is in use. So, disable the usb device with some other software(or make sure its not being used) first then you can do the disable/re-enabling from device manager.

By: James

James — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:53:48 +0000

Ihad tried SafelyRemoveprogram and thought it freeware but when saw the$20 price tag I went looking. Your tip works beautifully. I noticed a few had problems.. but maybe thay did as i first did. i stopped the usb wiith the exclamation then enabled it. Wrong! you’ll get the must restart notice….. It has to be the “parent” hub then works fine

By: Regina

Regina — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 04:25:46 +0000

Hi! I need help. I accidentally safely removed the cd-rom drive and I can’t put it back. I tried the instructions on the top but I can’t find the cd-rom drive in device manager. I will be dead because I just borrowed this laptop. PLEASE HELP!!!! Thanks….

By: Bruce Tech Guy

Bruce Tech Guy — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:39:08 +0000

P.S. of course a possible side effect is that I may feel less compelled to clean out under the desk, since I may not have to crawl around down there as often !

By: Bruce Tech Guy

Bruce Tech Guy — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:35:12 +0000

THanks!
I tried first your published way, View Devices by Type (the default), Disable then Enable “USB Mass Storage Device” and as reported, it just says for change to take effect I must reboot. Windows XP SP3.

BUT, SUCCESS as suggested by George Paul (Thanks!)
(and this works even after I did the first way, above, without rebooting)

Change Device Manager to View Devices by Connection
Select USB Root Hub for your externally attached USB hard drive (one level above the yellow exclamation mark). Right click it to Disable. Then right click to Enable. Drive spins UP – Hurray.

ALso works for my Ieee1394 Firewire attached hard drive – I right click the ‘SBP2 Compliant IEEE 1394 device’ and select disable, then enable, and that also spins up.

Good Tip. Thx.

By: kalum

kalum — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:48:00 +0000

This is a valuable tip. Other than the data card, in many laptops, the CD rom is attached with the USB internally. There are many times I removed my dvd rom accedently thinking that as an other flash drive and had to reboot again to get DVD rom back.

Now I have just to run devmgmt.msc and take my DVD rom back.
Thanks