Hi,

I hope I'm asking in the right forum. Here is what I want to do: I have a backup batch script, which uses cdrecord for win to burn a data CD. But when the script is finished, the CD is not remounted, so that the computer doesn't know that the CD has changed. I could use CDRecord to eject and load it, but I hate to wear out my drive.

Is there any way to umount and mount the drive without ejecting? I have umount and mount exe's, but I don't know how to use them for this under windows. I tried MOUNTVOL, and just lost my drive ): I'm a newbie....

Martin

You cannot mount and unmount drives in Windows as you can with other operating system. The drive is mounted when the OS boots. You could remove the drive from device manager, but the only way to get it back is to re-boot.

Ejecting the disk is the only way to do it. In fact most Windows based burning software ejects the CD as a matter of routine when the burn is completed.

Stuart

Hmmm, yes, but there has to be some way to do it, because when I burn CDs with Nero it does not eject the CD (I set it not to), but Windows knows the content of the CD has changed. Nero also checks the data on the disc without ejecting.

I think maybe I'm using the wrong term, because all I want is for the computer to know the CD has changed and be able to read from it. Maybe that is not the same as mounting and unmounting under Linux.

What is the purpose of mount.exe and umount.exe? Don't they do for Windows what they do in Linux? If they do, don't they do what I want? I have really searched a lot for instructions for using them under Win, and I can't find any. Maybe they are for use only with Cygwin?