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Hi Nate,
Strange, I'm not sure why you have the old style icon for this instead. Especially since it's a clean install and you have a Aero theme selected.
Hi,
This problem existed already on XP, so its a embarrasing that MS haven't solved it yet.
Wonder how much time and value is lost in the world by people waiting to be allowed to eject usb stick and similar, or in terms of data loss when people can't wait any longer and just disconnecting it anyway and it goes wrong.
In my case, I have a external HD via USB that I use for backups and even though everything is closed down, it says that "The device is curretnly in use. Close down....and try again.".. Doesn't matter how long I wait.
- What to do?
The most embarrasing thing is that this specific action, that most people do several times a day (USB sticks) works perfectly on Mac OS.
I still have the ejecting problem too.
Just a possible solution for anyone having this problem.
HotSwap - Friendly user interface equivalent to the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the notification area.
It's worth a try.It does the same thing as you can remove device from Device Manager but it provides much friendly user interface as you remove the removable device from the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in the notification area. It also ensures that all data are written and flushed to the disk before the device to be hot-swapped, so you can use SATA/eSATA drive as a removable device much alike USB/IEEE1394 drive.
I have used it for years for my eSATA external HDD.
Let us know if it works for you.
hi everyone,
im been reading through this thread and i noticed that Manoj and i have a similar problem.
i just purchased an msi u123 netbook and installed windows 7 ultimate through my WD external hard drive. after i finished a clean install (and do all the updates), i realized that whenever i plug in my external hard drive, i cannot access the "safely remove hardware" icon. for some reason this icon appears for my mini sd and when i use daemon tools, it doesnt show up for my kingston DTvault flash drive and my WD 2.5 external hard drive. i dont want to improperly remove the hard drive as i heard this is risky....
Please let me know if anyone can help....if you need more details, please let me know so that i can provide them.
Cheers!!