Command Line: Disconnect Drive

[jstevens]

From the command line I can disconnect a drive using "Net Use". I receive a response that the drive disconnected successfully however File Explorer still shows the drive letter as being mapped. Clicking on the drive letter I receive this error message.

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If I close File Explorer and reopen the application the drive letter is no longer displayed. In Windows 7 using the same approach the drive letter was disconnected and not displayed.

Any suggestions?

[HansV]

What happens if you press F5 in File Explorer to refresh the display after disconnecting the drive?

[jstevens]

Hans,

Pressing F5 in File Explorer does resolve my challenge. I have an Access DB that utilizes a shell command to map drives ie map and disconnect to one drive letter. It use to work flawlessly in W7, not so much in W10. The Access VBA does include a DoEvents.

[John Gray]

If it's a USB drive, you could try Uwe Sieber's RemoveDrive, noting the comments made in the writeup.

If it's an ordinary disk partition, I have found that Windows Explorer Map/Disconnect Network Drive and net use do not always play nicely together, and occasionally the one is not aware of an action taken by the other - as you are finding. But my situation relates to WIndows 7 clients to a Windows Server 2008 R2 server.

[jstevens]

Hans/John,

Thanks for the advice and recommendation. I resolved the mapping challenge by writing to a batch file from Access VBA and then using the SHELL command to invoke the batch file.