How to programmatically eject the USB device?

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How to programmatically eject the USB device using VC++ code?

Posted 16-May-11 19:23pm

Gokulnath007

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Kurt Degiorgio · Answer 1 · 2011-05-16T19:51:00

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take a look at this article

<ahref>How to Prepare a USB Drive for Safe Removal[^]

you will need to use IoDeviceControl to communicate with the usb driver and tell it to eject.

Posted 16-May-11 19:51pm

Kurt Degiorgio

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Gokulnath007 17-May-11 2:41am

How to apply this for a hard drive to eject? Making offline in xp?

Kurt Degiorgio 17-May-11 2:49am

I do not think you will be able to do this in the same way ask an other question regarding this topic.