How to "Un-Eject" a USB Flash drive -- Eject is easy (safely remove hardware), but what about Un-Eje

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There are times after I eject a USB Flash drive, I want to copy some more files over to the USB Flash drive. In this case, do I always need to unplug the drive and plug it back in? Is there a way to "reconnect" or "un-eject" the drive?

To eject, that are two ways:

1) Right Click the drive (say H:) and choose Eject
2) Click "Safely remove hardware" from the icon tool

But there seems to be no way to un-eject or reconnect a drive.

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