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Offline skypilotpete

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What is stopping external hard drive dismounting
« on: September 15, 2013, 05:37:00 pm »
Can anyone please tell me if tweaking.com (or anyone else) has a utility that will easily identify what is stopping an external hard drive from dismounting? It doesn't happen often, but every now and again I get the Windows message "Problem ejecting USB Mass Storage Device - The device is currently in use...". This is despite the fact that I have closed every program or window that could feasibly be accessing the drive. I have googled this message many times and it seems that this problem is common. Some people say that you can use Sysinternals process explorer to find what is causing the problem, but I have never been able to work out how to do this. I imagine that a simple utility to deal with this problem would be very useful to lots of people.
I run Windows 7 64 Home Premium

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Re: What is stopping external hard drive dismounting
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2013, 08:48:21 pm »
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The Bottom line is "Check your hardware first if it supports the task you try".

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Re: What is stopping external hard drive dismounting
« Reply #2 on: September 16, 2013, 03:16:02 pm »
I have this hapen on my drives every now and then.

When Windows or anything else, even explorer.exe opens a file it creates a lock. Sometimes those locks dont get killed. Explorer does this a lot. And when you go to disconnect the drive it checks if anything has any locks on any files on the drive, if it does it cant close it.

So it could be your AV, Windows itself or anything.

For me the problem stopped when I put my drive, which I use for backups, in the exclusion list in my Avast AV. This stopped the AV from accessing it and the lock problems went with it.

Shane

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Re: What is stopping external hard drive dismounting
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2013, 08:37:29 pm »
Hi, Shane, the threader , i think has forgotten to continue the discussion. The reader could not say whether the problem is solved or not
The Bottom line is "Check your hardware first if it supports the task you try".