Re: can't eject usb drive
- From: ANTant@xxxxxxxxxx (Ant)
- Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:38:29 -0600
Harry <harryooopotter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 24, 12:50 pm, "Tom Del Rosso" <td...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Curious... Sometimes I try to eject my USB drive and I get "can't be
stopped right now". Filemon says nothing is accessing it. The condition
persists, until I run a chkdsk which says "no problem". Then it ejects with
no problem. Any idea what would cause that? The drive had not been
accessed since a backup 12 hours ago.
Make sure your removable drive have "write caching" turned off (as
defeault).
Explorer > Harware tab > select drive > Properties > Policies tab
(.) optimize for Quick remove
// This setting disable write caching on the disk and in Windows, so
// you can disconnect this device without using the Safe Removal
// icon.
Then,m next time Windows complained "can't be stopped now,"
just ignore that, because you have make sure that the "write caching"
has been diabled.
I ran into this again at work with an old external Maxtor OneTouch HDD.
Optimize for quick removal was already selected in Policies tab via
Device Manager. Unlocker showed nothing used on this drive. All I did
was copy big image files (5 GB).
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