"Eject" usb stick

[wky]

Morning,

is there a way to "eject" (logically, not physically ;-) or "close" an USB stick from the command line?
Similar to SYNC from sysinternal (which requires administrator rights).

A script copies a lot of stuff to the USB stick and I want to be sure that the user can remove the stick without the requirement to click 'remove hardware' in the task bar.

There must be a simple solution to this, but I'm afraid I'm standing on my brains wires so early
in the morning :-)

Best regards,
Wolfgang

 

[Joe Caverly]

Have a read here;

http://jpsoft.com/forums/threads/hot-dismount-usb-virtual-disk.5298/

This may be a solution for you.

Joe

 

[Charles Dye]

See the EJECTMEDIA command.

 

[wky]

See the EJECTMEDIA command.

Morning Charles,

I'm aware of EJECTMEDIA but the help states "(It is not intended for unmounting USB drives.)"

So there is no other thing that I can do minimize the risk if a user pulls the USB drive cable
because he sees that the $UPDATE.btm is ready?

Thanks,
Wolfgang

 

[Charles Dye]

I'm aware of EJECTMEDIA but the help states "(It is not intended for unmounting USB drives.)"

I don't know why it says that. I've used it for years, and it does seem to dismount the volume.

 

[wky]

I don't know why it says that. I've used it for years, and it does seem to dismount the volume.

Thanks - I'll try it.

 

[Steve Fabian]

Vince Fatica provided eject.exe and eject64.exe for this explicit purpose. I renamed it dismount.exe for my own use. BTW, the 32b version works fine im Win7-64. You may need to search to locate the thread where Vince answered my request, most likely in last November, with downloading instructions.