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Menu item for mounting/unmounting hard disks?
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I've been opening Disk Utility to mount and unmount hard disks as needed but I'd like an easier way.
Anyone know of any software that installs a menu item to do this? I don't want to 'eject' the disk, just unmount it and be able to mount it again later on as needed.
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Clinically Insane
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If you can't find something, you could easily create a little terminal executable you could put in your dock to mount/unmount
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Bump. Because I'd love to have a more convenient method to do this, too.
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Unmounting is easy--drag to the trash to eject
Mounting--cycle power on the hard drive
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How about having the drive in the Finder sidebar?
Easy to mount and unmount as required and its always visible. (this is what I do anyway)
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Originally Posted by chabig 
Unmounting is easy--drag to the trash to eject
Mounting--cycle power on the hard drive
No, if you unmount it instead of ejecting it, you can re-mount it again later with out having to power cycle it.
This is what I've been doing via Disk Utility but I want an easier way.
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I was just offering a way to do it without Disk Utility, which is what I thought you wanted. But now I have to ask why you're going to all this trouble to mount and unmount. If the disk is connected, just leave it mounted.
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Originally Posted by chabig
I was just offering a way to do it without Disk Utility, which is what I thought you wanted. But now I have to ask why you're going to all this trouble to mount and unmount. If the disk is connected, just leave it mounted.
Because I don't like it spinning up and down all the time (or even spinning) when I'm not using it. As it spins up, it pauses the whole system.
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Moderator Join Date: Oct 2001
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Originally Posted by mediahound
Because I don't like it spinning up and down all the time (or even spinning) when I'm not using it. As it spins up, it pauses the whole system.
Energy saver preferences-> turn off Put hard disks to sleep when possible
But mount/unmount from the menu bar would be sweet.
Steve
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