How to Mount/Unmount Drives on Windows?

[dpickles at pacbell.net]

Hello,

I am creating a simple application that will reside in the Windows
system tray. The purpose of the program is to mount or unmount external
hard drives or flash memory devices, and to set their default states
(ie mounted or unmounted) at startup.

I do not know how to mount or unmount drives on Windows. I think that
it could possibly be done with a DOS command (using os.system()).

Thank you for any information you may have.