How to power off a hard drive to essentially "hot swap"

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Published on 2010-03-03T16:15:34Z Indexed on 2010/05/09 3:08 UTC
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power-management

I'm looking for either freeware or the programming basics to power off/on a hard drive. Mounting and unmounting a hard drive is simple enough just using the command prompt in Windows XP. Now I need to be able to power down the hard drive so it will not become damaged when being unplugged. I would prefer this to be a simple doable in the command prompt, a simple script, or at worst C++/C#. Freeware that does this exact requirement would also do the job.

This script/program will run on Windows XP with .NET 2.0 SP1.

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