Safe To Remove Hardware

[sparker781]

I am running into a weird issue not really sure where to put it. As an example whenever I have my external drive connected and I want to right click on the "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" icon which is the usb icon and a green check mark..Well normally I would be able to right click and choose eject however lately whenever I right click I do not get the eject option, I merely get an option to go into devices and printers...Any idea what could be causing this?

Thanks

 

[gregrocker]

The HD is missing from Safely Remove for some reason. Let's see if we can find out why.

Run a Disk Check or Partition Wizard Check File System on the External after backing up its files.

To test the HD itself use Partition Wizard surface test.

 

[sparker781]

Well it isn't just my external drive...I just found out its any USB device I have plugged in. I now have my PC controller olugged in and its doing the same thing.....Thoughts?!?

 

[gregrocker]

It normally only offers to "Safely Remove" on storage drives like an External HD.

 

[sparker781]

Yeah Well

Take a look at this screen shot!!!

How do I fix this?

 

[gregrocker]

Fix what?

 

[Britton30]

Yeah Well ?

Take a look at this screen shot!!!

How do I fix this?

We are trying to help, Being short won't help at all.
I assume this happens with all USB ports so you may try reinstalling USB drivers or a http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html#post4405 Greg's suggestions may turn up something too.
For devices other than a storage media there shouldn't be Safely Remove offered since there would be no write/read operations not possible data loss. For instance neither my mouse no keyboard appears in the Safely Remove dialog.

For the drive try this, open Computer right click it, choose Properties. Click the Hardware tab and scroll to the problem device and highlight it and click Properties for it. Open Policies and tick the quick Removal (default) button, OK, OK, Reboot and see if it is back to normal.

 

[jumanji]

Hi Sparker781,

Are you able to "Open Devices and Printers"?

 

[sparker781]

Sorry for the late response. I am able to open Devices and Printers. As I said this just starting happening to me within the past few days.

 

[gregrocker]

Waiting to hear the results of the steps I already gave you. There are other steps if those don't help.

 

[sparker781]

a chkdisk did not find anything out of the ordinary. Got any other suggestions?

 

[gregrocker]

Do all storage drives not show up to Safely Remove, or just the one? Does it fail to show up there every time?

Run SFC /SCANNOW Command to see if System files are needing repair.

What happened with Britton30"s suggestion?

 

[sparker781]

Well

Tried "For the drive try this, open Computer right click it, choose Properties. Click the Hardware tab and scroll to the problem device and highlight it and click Properties for it. Open Policies and tick the quick Removal (default) button, OK, OK, Reboot and see if it is back to normal." I did that but that has not fixed the issue. I am running the scannow so ill let you know the results of the outcome