Can't Disconnect USB Disk

[ralphs]

XP Pro SP2, 512M, Pentium M

I have an external hard drive connected through the USB port.

When I click on the icon in the taskbar and tell it to disconnect the drive
so that I can unplug it I receive a message that the drive is busy, try
again later. Waiting until later changes nothing.

When I hibernate, unplug it then start up it tells me it cannot find the
drive's MFT (e:\$mft)

Is there a setting I can change to make it so that I can safely unplug the
drive either with the taskbar icon or by hibernating and unplugging while
the machine is dormant?

 

[Andrew E.]

Open device mgr,locate the USB drive,select:uninstall or disable,uninstall
xp will reinstall on restart or when you prompt it to,disable disables until
you prompt,which could be at any time.

 

[Rey Santos]

Maybe you have your virtual memory set to drive e:. To check: Control Panel

System > Advanced tab, under Performance click the Settings button >

Advanced tab, under Virtual memory click change button. Is there a Paging
File Size for drive e: ?

 

[ralphs]

Maybe you have your virtual memory set to drive e:. To check: Control

Panel
Advanced tab, under Virtual memory click change button. Is there a Paging
File Size for drive e: ?

Sorry, I missed your message.

There is no paging file set for drive E: