Safely Remove Hardware - Eject Device

I'm having sort of the same problem of hugga26: I can eject my USB drive, but I get no balloon notification. After I eject it, I still see its icon. To make sure it's been ejected, I click on the icon, and if it goes away, then I pull the USB drive. Sometimes I forget to do that and open Explorer to see if the drive is still there.

How can I get the notification back?

Are you using a USB memory stick, a storage device , or is it a wireless phone or wireless mouse USB dongle?

The wireless phone or wireless mouse USB dongle can be unplugged at any time.

Dave76 said:

Are you using a USB memory stick, a storage device , or is it a wireless phone or wireless mouse USB dongle?

The wireless phone or wireless mouse USB dongle can be unplugged at any time.

It's a storage device. It happens only on my 7 Pro 64-bit PC, not on the other in my sig.

Hello Paul,

Double check to make sure that you have checked the Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar box for the Notification Area icons to see if that may be why you are not getting the notice.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Brink said:

Hello Paul,

Double check to make sure that you have checked the Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar box for the Notification Area icons to see if that may be why you are not getting the notice.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks, Brink. To save time, I keep Always show all icons and notifications on the taskbar marked for USB storage pen drives. So I don't have to sometimes click that little up arrow to reach the icon.

I don't know what may be causing the notification pop-up not to show. Some conflict, I guess...

In Vista, this was sometimes caused by having the balloon tips disabled. Double check using the "manual" way in Method Two in OPTION TWO in the tutorial below to make sure that they are still enabled. It's the same in Windows 7.

Notification Area Balloon Tips - Enable or Disable - Vista Forums

Brink, thanks a lot for another great tutorial!.

bubbleboy84 said:

Hi all,

I realised my cruzer micro 4GB thumbdrive could not do safety remove using U3 as well as the safety remove icon. But strangely, I can go to "My Computer" and rightclick both my U3 drive and thumbdrive to do a Eject, the U3 and safety remove icon are still in my notication area.

I tried to update my U3 lanchpad version, it doesnt help at all.. any idea to help me fix this problem please? I have other thumbdrive without U3, I am able to eject them using the safety remove at notication area. I have dual boot of windows 7(default boot) as well as windows XP

iksyaj said:

Hi,
I'm having problem on my cruzer micro (8gb) flash drive. It seems that when I safely remove it, the light on the flash drive doesn't stop. On other pc it does when safely remove.

I've tried the different ways to safely remove as on the 1st page. I noticed on "Devices and Printers", when I eject the flash drive, a warning appears on the icon that means "It needs troubleshooting".

The same here.
I have SanDisk cruzer micro 8gb with u3.
I'm trying to safely eject it, but it claims that some program is still using it.

Here is the notorious window screenshot:


Here is the event in the system event log:
level: information
source: userpnp
event id: 20011
task category: (7006)
description:
Device action request for device 'USB\VID_0781&PID_5406\0000167EB7736603' was vetoed by 'USBSTOR\Disk&Ven_SanDisk&Prod_Cruzer&Rev_4.05\0000167EB7736603&0' with veto type 5.


However if I preform right click --> eject on the drive in "computer" it's working perfect.

Here SanDisk's reference to this issue:
http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1168
http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/308/related/1

Brink said:

In Vista, this was sometimes caused by having the balloon tips disabled. Double check using the "manual" way in Method Two in OPTION TWO in the tutorial below to make sure that they are still enabled. It's the same in Windows 7.

Notification Area Balloon Tips - Enable or Disable - Vista Forums

Didn't work...

Paul,

I've also seen the refresh part of your issue with the drive icon still there when it's really not sometimes solved by resetting folder views to default.