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| 27 Nov 2009 | #1 |
| | Hi Shawn i am surprised that in my windows 7 professional i am not able to safely remove my external hdd or pen drive. in the safely remove and eject media icon i am getting only open device and printers. not any other things which i alrady conected to my usb. what could be the issue??? can u suggest me something pl??? |
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| 27 Nov 2009 | #2 |
| | Hello Manoj, and welcome to Seven Forums. If you have previously ejected them, then it may take a restart of the computer for them to show back up in "Safely Remove Hardware". Is it connected to a USB hub or to a USB port on the back if the computer? If to the computer, then you might try a differen USB port to see if that may be the issue. If you open "Devices and Printers", do you have it's drive icon listed there, and can you right click on it and click on Eject? Hope this helps, Shawn |
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| 29 Nov 2009 | #3 |
| | hi i tried all the usb ports. it opens the contents, but it is not showing the icon in safely remove hardware. whether it is external hdd, pen drive, mobile or anything. i dont know what is the actual reason for this. |
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| 29 Nov 2009 | #4 |
| | Manoj, How about in "Devices and Printers" as described above? I'm not sure why they are not showing up in "Safely Remove Hardware". You might see if running a sfc /scannow command may help. If not, then perhaps a repair install may. |
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| 05 Jan 2010 | #5 |
| | sfc /scannow worked for me Manoj, you probably fixed it by now. I had the exact same issue right now (only "Open Devices and Printers" showed up. What worked for me was the sfc /scannow, as Brink pointed to. Below a printout of running that command: C:\Windows\system32>sfc /scannow Beginning system scan. This process will take some time. Beginning verification phase of system scan. Verification 100% complete. Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files and successfully repaired them. Details are included in the CBS.Log windir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log. For example C:\Windows\Logs\CBS\CBS.log I didn't bother looking at the details in CBS.log, but those might hold the answer. thanks Brink! and thanks manoj for posting so detailed making it easy to search for this resolution.  |
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| 05 Jan 2010 | #6 |
| | You're welcome Simon, and welcome to Seven Forums.  |
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| 05 Jan 2010 | #7 |
| | I have found something odd. I did a CLEAN install of Windows 7 Pro (I have done many) On one of them the icon is like the old XP icon to "safely remove hardware" I cannot figure out why it would not be the same as all the rest of the installs I have done. Let me know why this particular install would have a different icon? |
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| 05 Jan 2010 | #8 |
| | Hello Nate, Could you post a screenshot of this? Strange, are you using a Aero theme, or a classic theme? |
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| 05 Jan 2010 | #9 |
| | Aero, it's on my Mom's machine. I set it up the same as all the rest of my installs. I have never seen it before. I will get a screenshot of it, but it may take a couple of days. It's the same icon as XP as I remember. Very odd. Everything works fine, but it looks funny. |
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