Undocking a T42P from a 2877 docking station with an ultrabay 2000 HDD???

I have just added a disk drive in the ultrabay 2000 slot of my 2877 docking station that I use to hold my backups.  I can no longer use the "Undock" function because the device is in use by an active program - I assume the operating system or Windows Explorer.  My PC is a ThinkPad T42p running XP at the SP2 level.  Is there any way short of shutting down the PC to flush all of the cache to the 2nd HDD and be able to safely undock the laptop from the docking station?
Thanks,
scott

Thanks for the reply, Huffer. I was plugging it into one of the 3.0 ports. I just tried the 2.0 port. Disk Management successfully loaded, and presented me with an "Initialize Disk" window (I hit "Cancel"). It showed that HDD as "Not initialized" and having no partitions (all space unallocated). No new drives appeared in Computer.
The drive behaved fine when used with my old laptop (the issue with that laptop is a power supply issue, not a drive issue). I don't have another working computer to try it in, nor do I have another drive to try in the docking station.
I assume that I should not initialize it, as that may make my data more difficult to recover, correct? Is problem likely my laptop, the docking station, the drive, or an incompatibility issue? What utility might I be able to use to see this partition and copy my data over?

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