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Hide removable drive from unmounting?
I have a mybook external harddrive that I send backups to daily, and also pull files from a shared archive folder on that drive. The same computer that hosts it, is used by several employees who handle customers' usb traveldrive type devices on a regular basis. The procedure for unlocking a traveldrive before removal, invariably includes the mybook in the list. for example they will see (from "unplug or eject hardware):
Stop USB Mass Storage Device - Drive(E:)
Stop USB Mass Storage Device - Drive(F:)
There's no indicator which one is the mybook, although it's always drive E because it's always plugged in, but I'd rather not have it in this list. It's already been stopped on accident once, and I have to keep it plugged into a front USB port to avoid a big hastle remounting it.
2 Answers
- jmorgeLv 61 decade agoFavorite Answer
I don't think there's any way to tell windows to not include a specific drive or device in the list. if there is, I can't find any way of doing it.
The only suggestions I have to help make it easier to identifiy which Mass device is your external drive vs the USB drive is you'll notice on the safely remove hardware window there's an option at the bottom "Display Device Components". Check that option On. When it's on, the devices in the list will show more detail than the generic "mass storage device - Drive E" stuff. It'll show the full name of the item, etc. Hopefully employees will then pay more attention to which name they select to stop.
I think once it's checked, it remains checked too (I haven't tested this by rebooting and looking to see if it remained checked on).
Other than that, the only other thing I can think of is to re-assign the drive letter of your external drive to something like "X" or "Z" and tell your employees to never choose drive X. Plus by changing it to X or Z, the USB will show up first on the list and maybe employees would be more apt to select the first drive on the list.
to change the letter, right click My Computer. Select Manage. Then do to the disk management option. Right click on your external drive and select the option to change the drive letter.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
One solution would be a network storage device. If you have a computer you can dedicate for that (it can be an old Win2K computer), try http://www.freenas.org/
