Stupid USB removal thing

whitecrook · 18 Jan 2008 at 18:51

I went to remove my USB hard drive and when I clicked it I accidentaly 'Safely Removed' one of the Internal SATA drives. Now Windows seems to want me to remove the drive to get it working again.

Any way to tell windows to start the drive again without opening my case? (or rebooting

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PhillyDee · 18 Jan 2008 at 19:00

Restart the pc?

MarcLister · 18 Jan 2008 at 19:35

Hmm I'd restart the PC or open the case if I were you. Unless you can do a soft-boot?

Paul91 · 18 Jan 2008 at 20:02

Could you try to disable and re-enable the device? It might work, but I'm not sure.

allllec · 18 Jan 2008 at 20:54

Enable/Disable the controller its attacked to. Might give windows the impression of being reconnected. (Obviously don't do this if your windows drive is on the same controller)

jbloggs · 18 Jan 2008 at 21:08

If it is NOT as OS HDD, go into Device Manager->right click->UNinstall, OK etc, ->Action->Scan for hardware changes->HDD will then be reinstalled...

whitecrook · 19 Jan 2008 at 02:39

No

none of it worked. rebooting sucks the hairy ones.

allllec · 19 Jan 2008 at 04:21

OP: 06:51 PM

Latest: 02:39 AM

What is so bad about a reboot its worth spending over 6 hours trying to avoid it? aha

Z][GGY · 19 Jan 2008 at 05:16

whitecrook · 19 Jan 2008 at 13:28

Well I happened to be undre my desk and I realised that I hadn't screwed my case on so I just unplugged the SATA cable form the mobo.

Turned out to be the wrong one, lucky don't think I had much important open on that drive. Then I re-plugged the other back in and it worked.

Total design suckage there.

I never reboot my computer.