Constantly Unable to Eject External Drives


  1. koberulz
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    Constantly Unable to Eject External Drives


    For some reason Windows is being really clingy with my externals.

    Sometimes it's svchost.exe, on this particular occasion it's Explorer. Except in Process Explorer I went in and removed those handles, and now according to Unlocker nothing is holding my drive. But I still get an error when I try to eject it.

    This happens quite frequently, generally without the Explorer step - my drives will be 'in use', preventing ejection, but Unlocker can't find anything holding onto them. It's getting quite frustrating.
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  3. billmcct
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    Windows 7 doesn't use "Delayed Write" on external drives. You can see this in the properties of the drives.
    drive>properties>hardware tab>select drive>properties>change settings>policies tab

    Should show "write caching disabled which means you can just unplug the drives instead of ejecting.
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  4. koberulz
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    How do I tell which drive is which in the hardware tab?
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  6. billmcct
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    What brand external drives do you have? And what brand internal? A screenshot would help. You can use SIV to see what the names and serial numbers of the drives are.
    Download SIV (System Information Viewer) - MajorGeeks it's free.
    Or use Speccy
    Speccy - Free Download - Piriform

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