Drive Removal of USB Drives in Total Commander

[JFalke]

Hello,

I'm using Windows- and now Total-Commander for a long time and I could not miss it any more. Thank you for this extraordinary tool!

In the last months I'm working oftenly with multiple USB drives. But I hate the removal action with Window's 'hardware removal'.

So I would greatly appreciate, if the removal option could be integrated also in the right click context menu of the drive buttons of total commander.

Kind regards and a Happy New Year

Jürgen

[Hacker]

Hello JFalke,

So I would greatly appreciate, if the removal option could be integrated also in the right click context menu of the drive buttons of total commander.

Do you have the "Eject" item in the context menu of the USB drive?

Roman

[JFalke]

Hello Hacker,

thanks for your answer. Yes, 'eject' is there, but it does not disconnect USB harddrives.

Jürgen

[Hacker]

JFalke,
Hm, it works fine here for USB flash drives but it is not in the context menu of a USB hard drive. Sorry I was of little help.

Roman

[karlchen]

Hello, JFalke.

In the context menu, the item right below "Eject" is named "Remove securely". This might be the appropriate action for a USB hard disk.
(Total Commander 7.56a on Vista Home Premium SP2, 32-bit)

HTH,
Karl

[JFalke]

Hello karlchen,

thanks foer your post too!! I forgot to note, that I'm using still XP (SP3). There I don't find such an option in the context menu of the drive buttons?

Kind regards

[infimum]

But I hate the removal action with Window's 'hardware removal'.

So I would greatly appreciate, if the removal option could be integrated also in the right click context menu of the drive buttons of total commander.

Exactly what do you hate about it?
Exactly what do you want from such functionality?

[Balderstrom]

USB Disk Ejector

• Eject the drive that the program is running from.
• Eject a drive by specifying a drive letter.
• Eject a drive by specifying a drive name.
• Eject a drive by specifying a partial drive name.

[JFalke]

Hi infimum,

the process is not very praticable:

first klick on the left arrow icon in the right bottom screen place, the iconlist of the miniicons of some tasks appears, find the hardware removal icon between different others, click on it, then select the drive to remove. These are four clicks, where you have to place your mouse very precisely (think of a laptop!). If you miss by bad mouse position or laptop one of the clicks, the procedure starts from begin.

I would prefer a simple right click on total commanders drive buttons, click removal that's all, like its realized for removal of a network drivem e.g.

[Hacker]

the process is not very praticable

I agree for another reason - clicking the Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media tray icon always spins up my secondary hard disk, which is asleep most of the time.

Roman

[Balderstrom]

And on my system The "Safely Remove Hardware" also displays all of my _internal_ SATA drives. So I always have to be careful to only be selecting the USB drive or my mp3 player.

[JFalke]

Hi Balderstrom,

thanks for the hint to 'USB Disk Ejektor'. I just installed it and it is much more comfortable than the small icons, but indeed i still would prefer the 'safely removal' in the button drive's context menu.

[JFalke]

Hi at all,

I meanwhile discovered another program - commercial, but much more powerful: USB Safely Remove. Not very expensive (20$) and a very good alternative (may be configured to hide unused usb memory card slots) until drive buttons context menu becomes expanded.

[Balderstrom]

@JFalke, USB Management is fairly easy if you use the tools Windows provides.

E.G.
Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management
..
Storage
+ Disk Management
(Or, %SystemRoot%\system32\compmgmt.msc /s )

Find your USB drive in the list. Assign a specific Drive to the USB card.
Find your Memory Card in the list. Assign a specific PATH to that Memory Card. Windows uses the unique hardware ID of the USB Drive/Memory Card. So only that specific card (or usb drive) will ever utilize that particular Drive or Folder.