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How to refresh drive information in Windows2000

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shanlon

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Dec 4, 2000
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Can anyone tell me how to get Windows2000 to refresh it's hard disk information.

I have an application that will disable a particular hard drive.. the only problem is that Explorer still has the drive listed as a visible drive.. ie the icon for this drive is still displayed. It is also displayed under MyComputer.

However if i first run the program that is responsible for partitioning drives etc in Win2000 (don't know the program name), the disabled drive is listed as unavailable for use which is what i want & then if i run Explorer the appropriate drive icon has disappeared. Basically the partitioning program has refreshed the drive information.

As far as i can tell, the only other way for Windows2000 to pick up the new changes is to reboot the system which i would rather not do.

 
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