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Roof Fiddler
I have no programs accessing anything on my external usb hd, and no explorer
windows or command prompts running. The activity light on the drive shows no
activity. When I click the "safely remove hardware" icon in the task tray
and click "safely remove usb mass storage device - drive (f" it says
"Windows can't stop your 'generic volume' device because it is in use." and
immediately the external drive goes into a flurry of activity with its
activity light staying on almost constantly. Windows resource monitor shows
that svchost is the culprit, reading the drive at about 2MB/sec
continuously. Sysinternals process explorer confirms that nothing besides
"System" and "svchost.exe" have any handles open for the drive. The disk
activity continues for several minutes, then stops. If I try "safely remove
hardware" again, it again refuses, and goes into another flurry of disk
activity. The result is that I can't safely remove the device, unless I shut
down the machine first, which kind of defeats the point of usb drives being
hot pluggable. This is infuriating.
windows or command prompts running. The activity light on the drive shows no
activity. When I click the "safely remove hardware" icon in the task tray
and click "safely remove usb mass storage device - drive (f" it says
"Windows can't stop your 'generic volume' device because it is in use." and
immediately the external drive goes into a flurry of activity with its
activity light staying on almost constantly. Windows resource monitor shows
that svchost is the culprit, reading the drive at about 2MB/sec
continuously. Sysinternals process explorer confirms that nothing besides
"System" and "svchost.exe" have any handles open for the drive. The disk
activity continues for several minutes, then stops. If I try "safely remove
hardware" again, it again refuses, and goes into another flurry of disk
activity. The result is that I can't safely remove the device, unless I shut
down the machine first, which kind of defeats the point of usb drives being
hot pluggable. This is infuriating.