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Safely remove hardware - alternative needed
I need an alternative to the 'safely remove hardware' button in the sytem tray. This is cos I kill my taskbar with a little app in my startup folder resulting in just the start pearl showing but no actual bar, system notifications, etc. A problem has arisen in trying to safely remove a peripheral. With flash drives, SD cards, modems, etc I can still click on My Computer, right-click the device and select 'eject' or 'safely remove'. This doesn't work with my external harddrive though. There is no 'eject' or 'safely remove' option when I right click it.
Does anyone know of an alternative? I've done a fair bit of searching but found nothing yet and Micosoft's help page is no has nothing on the topic
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Thanx a bundle, mate. The desktop link works fine. Now gonna see if I can get it working in my dock. Cheers.
Computer type PC/Desktop Computer Manufacturer/Model Number Own build OS Windows 7 x64 Professional CPU Intel Core i7-870 Lynnfield 2.93 GHz Motherboard Intel Whitesburg P55 LGA1156 Memory Kingston Hyper X 1333MHz DDR3 4x4Gb Graphics Card(s) Nvidia GTS 250 Monitor(s) Displays AOC Q3279VWF 31.5" Screen Resolution 2560x1440 Hard Drives Western Digital 1000GB Hard Drive (SATA 3.0Gb/s, 7200rpm, 32MB Cache) PSU 650W Case Coolermaster HAF 912 Cooling Stock Keyboard Logitech Mouse Logitech Antivirus Avira Browser Firefox Other Info LG OptDrive 24x SATA DVDRW Lightscribe
You're welcome.
Computer type PC/Desktop Computer Manufacturer/Model Number Self built custom OS 64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations CPU Intel i7-8700K OC'd to 5 GHz Motherboard ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390 Memory 64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz Graphics Card(s) ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING Sound Card Integrated Monitor(s) Displays 2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27" Screen Resolution 2560x1440 Hard Drives 1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2, PSU Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W Case Thermaltake Core P3 Cooling Corsair Hydro H115i Keyboard Logitech wireless K800 Mouse Logitech MX Master 4 Internet Speed 2 Gb/s Download and 100 Mb/s Upload Antivirus Malwarebyte Anti-Malware Premium Browser Google Chrome Other Info Logitech Z625 speaker system,
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You're most welcome Snahl. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted.
Computer type PC/Desktop Computer Manufacturer/Model Number Self built custom OS 64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations CPU Intel i7-8700K OC'd to 5 GHz Motherboard ASUS ROG Maximus XI Formula Z390 Memory 64 GB (4x16GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB DDR4 3600 MHz Graphics Card(s) ASUS ROG-STRIX-GTX1080TI-O11G-GAMING Sound Card Integrated Monitor(s) Displays 2 x Samsung Odyssey G7 27" Screen Resolution 2560x1440 Hard Drives 1TB Samsung 990 PRO M.2, PSU Seasonic Prime Titanium 850W Case Thermaltake Core P3 Cooling Corsair Hydro H115i Keyboard Logitech wireless K800 Mouse Logitech MX Master 4 Internet Speed 2 Gb/s Download and 100 Mb/s Upload Antivirus Malwarebyte Anti-Malware Premium Browser Google Chrome Other Info Logitech Z625 speaker system,
