Eject usb drive but not all of them
Using the windows 10 icon, "eject the media", is slow because windows start all my sleeping usb drives before i can click "eject safely"
I wanted to eject some drive without waiting for the windows to open
I did not want to eject my sleeping usb drives that i use for storage
So, I designed this little powershell script to do so
##### powershell script #####
### requirements
# because this script is not signed
# (this will allow unsigned local powershell scripts to run)
# windows 7
# Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned #################################
# windows 10
# Set-ExecutionPolicy -scope CurrentUser RemoteSigned ##############
# run it in powershell ISE interface runned as admin
$donotejectserials = @(`
"FAFFFFF0FDF2F7F1BFC15635",`
"2GEWLRPL",`
"14510E6CDA88")
# get serial i do not want to eject - list all usb drives
#get-Disk | Where {($_.BusType -eq "USB")}
$allusbdisk = get-Disk | Where {($_.BusType -eq "USB")}
foreach ($usbdisk in $allusbdisk)
{
$founddonoteject = 0
foreach ($donotejectserial in $donotejectserials)
{
if ($usbdisk.serialnumber -like "*$donotejectserial*")
{
$founddonoteject = 1
}
#write-host "Serials: " $usbdisk.serialnumber " ----- " $donotejectserial " ----- " $founddonoteject
}
if ($founddonoteject -eq 0)
{
$letter = ($usbdisk | Get-Partition ).DriveLetter
write-host "Ejecting: " $letter " ----- " $usbdisk.friendlyname " ----- " $usbdisk.serialnumber
(New-Object -comObject Shell.Application).NameSpace(17).ParseName("$($letter):").InvokeVerb('Eject')
}
else
{
#write-host "NOT Ejecting: " $usbdisk.friendlyname
}
}
