Maxtor external drive

[Don]

Folks
I have a Maxtor 250g fire wire external drive that is recognized by vista
and allows for file transfers etc no problems. The problem I have is when I
have finished say doing a backup or other activity to the drive and wish to
remove it from the system, it will not "remove" itself and when using the
safely remove hardware it just sits there saying some program is using it so
it cannot shutdown. Task manager will show that nothing is operating. Any
suggestions?

If I attempt to shut the whole system down it just hangs.

regards

Don

 

[Richard G. Harper]

Try closing all Explorer windows, then open a new one to view the drive,
refresh it, then close the Explorer window. See if it will eject then. If
not, check to make sure that it is set to be optimized for quick removal -
run the Disk Management tool, right-click the removable drive, click
Properties, then the Policies tab, and finally select the option to optimize
for quick removal.

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[Don]

Richard

finally found a solution. I had a usb card reader attached to the system
and that has to be "removed" first to enable the hard drive to be removed.
Thanks for your efforts
Don

Try closing all Explorer windows, then open a new one to view the drive,
refresh it, then close the Explorer window. See if it will eject then.
If not, check to make sure that it is set to be optimized for quick
removal - run the Disk Management tool, right-click the removable drive,
click Properties, then the Policies tab, and finally select the option to
optimize for quick removal.

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Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] (e-mail address removed)
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Folks
I have a Maxtor 250g fire wire external drive that is recognized by vista
and allows for file transfers etc no problems. The problem I have is
when I have finished say doing a backup or other activity to the drive
and wish to remove it from the system, it will not "remove" itself and
when using the safely remove hardware it just sits there saying some
program is using it so it cannot shutdown. Task manager will show that
nothing is operating. Any suggestions?

If I attempt to shut the whole system down it just hangs.

regards

Don

 

[Richard G. Harper]

That's odd, but if it works then I'm glad you figured it out.

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Richard

finally found a solution. I had a usb card reader attached to the system
and that has to be "removed" first to enable the hard drive to be removed.
Thanks for your efforts
Don

Try closing all Explorer windows, then open a new one to view the drive,
refresh it, then close the Explorer window. See if it will eject then.
If not, check to make sure that it is set to be optimized for quick
removal - run the Disk Management tool, right-click the removable drive,
click Properties, then the Policies tab, and finally select the option to
optimize for quick removal.

--
Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] (e-mail address removed)
* NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
* PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
* The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/
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Folks
I have a Maxtor 250g fire wire external drive that is recognized by
vista and allows for file transfers etc no problems. The problem I have
is when I have finished say doing a backup or other activity to the
drive and wish to remove it from the system, it will not "remove" itself
and when using the safely remove hardware it just sits there saying some
program is using it so it cannot shutdown. Task manager will show that
nothing is operating. Any suggestions?

If I attempt to shut the whole system down it just hangs.

regards

Don