Create safely remove hardware shortcut

[unknownmiscreant]

I used to use ROG keybot (with a really old keyboard) where I assigned an otherwise useless F key to the eject removable media action. It worked really well, auto ejecting all plugged in USB devices. (I only ever had one or two and always wanted to remove both at the same time).

However I recently got a decent keyboard, and logitech gaming software can't communicate with the board while keybot is enabled.

 

I can assign a shortcut to the F keys in LGS, but this shortcut which is recommended in alot of places doesn't work.

%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll

Every time I try to eject something it says that the device is not removable and cannot be ejected. I have tried every USB drive I own. The task bar icon works fine, and they all worked with keybot.

 

Is there any way to get the same functionality as keybot with LGS?

[Anghammarad]

To cite a what a wise person once said: "Life is too short to use the "remove usb devices safely" from your computer" ...

 

SCNR

[unknownmiscreant]

55 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

To cite a what a wise person once said: "Life is too short to use the "remove usb devices safely" from your computer" ...

 

SCNR

Life is too short to wind up trying to recover USB devices which have been bricked or corrupted by NOT using the safely remove feature. I have also found that if you remove the drive without using the safely eject after only copying small files onto the drive, they have not been flushed to disk. Which takes longer? Doing it right the first time or having to redo it and do it properly???

 

Also, most of the drives I work with are expensive high capacity external SSDs/HDDs which have write caching enabled for performance. Not ejecting drives with write caching enabled greatly increases the chance of data corruption. And often the data on the drives is stuff I need to keep, so it is well worth my time to eject them properly to: a) ensure they last (drive controllers can be bricked if they are disconnected mid-write operation), and b) I don't go around having to re-copy either small files that never got flushed to disk or large files because the entire file system on the drive got corrupted.

 

The keybot shortcut made the ejection process much faster and less arduous, as you could hit a key, and by the time you had reached over to unplug the drive it had been ejected.