remove hardware wont remove

[Greg]

Win xp home with SP2 dell inspiron notebook

I have a smart disk firelite usb hard drive and since I got SP2 the remove
hardware winzard say the device cannot be stopped right now. My usb floppy
drive does the same thing. Ive seen the posts here about it

does MS have a solution?

Greg

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE]

Win xp home with SP2 dell inspiron notebook

I have a smart disk firelite usb hard drive and since I got SP2 the
remove hardware winzard say the device cannot be stopped right now.
My usb floppy drive does the same thing. Ive seen the posts here
about it
does MS have a solution?

Greg

That often means that the system is waiting to write something to the drive.

--
Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Protect your PC
http://www.microsoft.com./athome/security/protect/default.aspx
http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/

 

[Jan Alter]

I've gotten that message too on XP with SP2, but if I wait a bit and try
again the drive gets released.

 

[Greg]

Ive tried waiting too, but the same message keeps popping up

 

[Rock]

Win xp home with SP2 dell inspiron notebook

I have a smart disk firelite usb hard drive and since I got SP2 the remove
hardware winzard say the device cannot be stopped right now. My usb floppy
drive does the same thing. Ive seen the posts here about it

does MS have a solution?

Greg

One option is to turn off write caching. Right click My Computer |
Properties | Hardware | Device Manager. Expand the Disk drives
category. Double click the hard drive in question. On the Policies tab
put a tic mark in Optimize for quick removal.

 

[Greg]

I forgot to add that I already tried the write cache trick. no results.

 

[Rock]

I forgot to add that I already tried the write cache trick. no results.

Ok Greg, sorry but I don't have any other suggestions.