Remove a Drive
If you want to remove a drive that is either hot-swappable or removable, it is important
to prepare the drive for that event by telling Windows Server 2008 that you are going to
remove it, before you actually do so. Knowing this, Windows will prevent further writing
to the drive and perform any hardware-specific tasks, such as spinning down the
drive and/or ejecting the platter. Depending on your drive and how it has been implemented
in Windows Server 2008, you??™ll have various ways to tell the operating system
that you want to remove the drive.
On some devices, such as removable drives, you
can right-click the drive on the left of the graphical
part of the Disk Management pane and click Eject.
The disk will be prepared and ejected. Other devices
have similar commands.
With removable disks you may have a Safely Remove
Hardware icon in the tray on the right of the
taskbar. If you double-click this icon, a dialog box
will open in which you can click Stop, select the device, and click OK to prepare the disk
to be removed. You will be told the disk can now be removed. Click OK and close the
dialog box.
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Partition and Format Drives
The first step in preparing a disk for use is to partition it and then format it. Partitioning
can be done only when there is unallocated space on the drive??”space that is not currently
used for an existing partition or volume.
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