Originally Posted By: tanstaafl.
One of my backup drives is an external 1TB SATA drive. I leave it powered down except when I am backing up. In order for the computer to see the drive, I have to power up the drive and then reboot the computer. Is there a way to mount the drive (Windows Vista) without rebooting?

Its plugged in via SATA? No clue how to do a hotplug event on Windows.

Originally Posted By: tanstaafl.
09/23/2009 21:03:36: Error: Could Not Open Source File (Error 32 - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.): C:\Boot\BCD

09/23/2009 21:03:39: Error: Could Not Open Source File (Error 32 - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.): C:\Boot\BCD.LOG

Windows bootloader stuff.

Originally Posted By: tanstaafl.
09/23/2009 21:06:27: Error: Could Not Open Source File (Error 32 - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.): C:\Users\Doug\NTUSER.DAT

09/23/2009 21:06:30: Error: Could Not Open Source File (Error 32 - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.): C:\Users\Doug\ntuser.dat.LOG1

09/23/2009 21:06:33: Error: Could Not Open Source File (Error 32 - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.): C:\Users\Doug\ntuser.dat.LOG2

Windows registry stuff.

Originally Posted By: tanstaafl.
09/23/2009 21:07:41: Error: Could Not Open Source File (Error 32 - The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.): C:\Users\Doug\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Defender\FileTracker\9CE55740-1054-45FD-9B0F-CD50F550CF5C

Some part of Windows Defender. No clue what it is exactly but it should be safe.