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When an IDE or SATA drive has been prepared for safe removal it can be braught back by a scan for new hardware. That's what this tool initiates.
It is a non interactive, invisible Windows application.
It does the same as Microsoft's tool DEVCON when called with parameter 'rescan'.
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