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Thanks for taking time to respond to my question even after SU closed it. I went ahead and acted on Jared Tritsch's suggestion and removed the drive just by removing it. Once I get laptop operational again, I'll experiment with with DISKPART. Here's the link to Microsoft's Specs for DISKPART. technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490893.aspx

zundarz
– zundarz

2012-10-12 03:19:15 +00:00
Commented Oct 12, 2012 at 3:19
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@zundarz: You're welcome! The default Removal policy in Windows for removable devices is Quick removal, which disabled write caching and allows one to remove the drive without needing to safely remove it first. See this screenshot for more. Thus Jared's suggestion about yanking the drive shouldn't ordinarily cause data loss if removable drives are treated the same way in the Recovery Console as well. Still, for peace of mind I always take care to safely remove each drive before pulling it out. Might be a placebo, but keeps me from worrying. :)

Karan
– Karan

2012-10-12 04:28:01 +00:00
Commented Oct 12, 2012 at 4:28
P.S. Be careful with Diskpart - it's powerful and hence quite dangerous. The reason I used it for drive dismounting is because it's available from both XP's Recovery Console and Vista/7's System Recovery Options / Command Prompt.

Karan
– Karan

2012-10-12 04:38:40 +00:00
Commented Oct 12, 2012 at 4:38
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To undo the remove all dismount command you must use the mountvol command. For more information see Technet library here and also here. After you have used mountvol you must reboot for the changes to take effect. Alternatively, you can also use Disk Management to assign a new drive letter.

Samir
– Samir

2013-05-26 12:44:17 +00:00
Commented May 26, 2013 at 12:44
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i'd consider the last command to be the best as it doesn't require third-party software to implement the solution

user373230
– user373230

2014-11-20 03:34:06 +00:00
Commented Nov 20, 2014 at 3:34

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