What kind of reason is there when an external USB data drive cannot be
disconnected? And I don't mean just one click and give up. I mean
repeatedly and repeatedly and repeatedly.
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<inkleput@isp.com> wrote in message
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> What kind of reason is there when an external USB data drive cannot be
> disconnected? And I don't mean just one click and give up. I mean
> repeatedly and repeatedly and repeatedly.
Unsuitable USB drivers? The OP did not say when his
were last updated (or by MS or MB maker or USB vendor.)
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<inkleput@isp.com> wrote in message
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> What kind of reason is there when an external USB data drive cannot be
> disconnected? And I don't mean just one click and give up. I mean
> repeatedly and repeatedly and repeatedly.
>
>
> JimL
>
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<inkleput@isp.com> wrote in message
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> What kind of reason is there when an external USB data drive cannot be
> disconnected? And I don't mean just one click and give up. I mean
> repeatedly and repeatedly and repeatedly.
>
>
> JimL
>
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> Push ALL sources of energy! Keep our energy money AT HOME!
Disk Cache may be turned on for the drive. Right click My computer, left
click Manage and then Device Manager. Click the + beside Disk Drives and
then right click your USB drive and left click Properties, click the
Policies Tab. If Optimize for quick removal is not checked this could be
your issue.
Some times it just doesn't want to release the drive. Make sure no
program is accessing the drive, including indexing services, the antivirus
program or the like and then try again.
If there has been no activity for an extended period of idle computer time
it is probably safe to just unplug it.
Personally when I have one hang like this I just restart the system and
unplug when the system bios is displayed if I have any doubt.
><inkleput@isp.com> wrote in message
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>> What kind of reason is there when an external USB data drive cannot be
>> disconnected? And I don't mean just one click and give up. I mean
>> repeatedly and repeatedly and repeatedly.
>>
>>
>> JimL
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>Disk Cache may be turned on for the drive. Right click My computer, left
>click Manage and then Device Manager. Click the + beside Disk Drives and
>then right click your USB drive and left click Properties, click the
>Policies Tab. If Optimize for quick removal is not checked this could be
>your issue.
Nail on the head - pretty much.
There is a partition on that drive that holds the files from a drive clone. The setting for it is greyed out and NOT set to Quick Removal. I turned off the cache. I don't know if that will help.
The odd thing is that sometimes it disconnects just fine.
>Some times it just doesn't want to release the drive. Make sure no
>program is accessing the drive, including indexing services, the antivirus
>program or the like and then try again.
>If there has been no activity for an extended period of idle computer time
>it is probably safe to just unplug it.
I've found that to be the case sometimes and sometimes not.
>Personally when I have one hang like this I just restart the system and
>unplug when the system bios is displayed if I have any doubt.
That's what I've been doing, but I wondered if there was trouble brewing under the surface some how.
Thanks
JimL
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Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM wrote (in
news:OF$$T56CJHA.4700@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl):
> <inkleput@isp.com> wrote in message
> news:48b9e71b$1$vaxyrchg$mr2ice@news.isp.com...
> > What kind of reason is there when an external USB data drive cannot be
> > disconnected? And I don't mean just one click and give up. I mean
> > repeatedly and repeatedly and repeatedly.
>
> Make sure no programs (including Windows Explorer) have anything on the
> drive open.
Bingo!—sort of. There is probably a program on the drive that is running. Quit
it. Frank is right too; Explorer for example has a nasty habit of keeping open
handles to picture files which would cause the drive to be “in-use”.
Unfortunately there is no known way of getting Explorer to knock it off, so you
could get Unlocker (http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/)—or some other app—and use
that to forcibly close the handles (of course then Explorer is in an unstable
state and will probably crash and restart at some point, but that’s just how it
is).
>> Make sure no programs (including Windows Explorer) have anything on the
>> drive open.
>Bingo! sort of. There is probably a program on the drive that is running.
>Quit it. Frank is right too; Explorer for example has a nasty habit of
>keeping open handles to picture files which would cause the drive to be
>in-use.
I've never really known por understood spit about Explorer.
Nothing ever really "runs" per se on that drive, a data and archive drive.
But if Explorer decides for me that something has to be linked up to it I
have two points to make. Firstly, my previous process of just waiting
until I shut down to disconnect it seems the only useful course.
Secondly, I really don't like Explorer.
JimL
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