Cannot Eject External HDD?


  1. Donbrasi
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    Cannot Eject External HDD?


    I had not safely remove my HDD under an vista computer, now I wanted to mount my HDD under Ubuntu but that's not possible and I'll get an error.

    So I mounted my HDD under Windows 7 and did a checkdisk, but I canceled the checkdisk to early. Now I wanted to eject my HDD and get the following error?

    I also tried to run the checkdisk again but then nothing started, do I just have to wait?
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  3. Donbrasi
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    Or should I just eject the drive (not safely) then is probably the problem solved and can I mount the drive under Ubuntu?
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  4. janitoronmars
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    If you are worried, why not just shutdown the computer and then unplug the drive?
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  6. jumanji
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    ^ Good. Way to go.
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