Safely Remove Hardware Slow to Open

Windows volition not allow me to safely remove my drive. Information technology keeps reporting the drive is busy or in use

When you cannot safely remove a drive successfully, the cause is usually a program that is trying to read from the drive. This article explains.

Information technology is always considered a safe removal to shut down/reboot the computer and turn off/disconnect the drive while the computer's ability is down, but that is not always a user-friendly solution.  This document will explore several possible resolutions for the problem.

Step i:  Effort the drive on another computer so every bit to endeavor to isolate the problem.  If the problem does non repeat itself on the second computer, then information technology might well be organisation-related.  If the problem follows the drive, then go on troubleshooting.

Step 2:  A process that can hold upwardly the drive is explorer.exe . This is because of the Windows Recycle Bin.
The Recycle Bin may demand to be disabled.

1. Right-click on theRecycle Bin on the desktop.
2. SelectProperties.
3. Select theGlobal tab.
4. SelectConfigure drives independently (instead ofEmploy i setting for all drives).
5. Select the USB drive letter tab on the top.
6. Put a check in theDo not move files to the Recycle Bin checkbox.
7. ClickOK.

 Disabling the Recycle Bin will cause deleted files to be permanently deleted immediately.
 This selection may non exist available in Windows Vista or Windows 7.

Step 3:  If yous have Norton System Works installed, the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the System Tray will not work with the external drive because of the Norton Protected Recycle Bin. If your Windows Recycle bin on the desktop has an "Due north" with a shield, so Norton is running a special software on your system.
This is a known result.

Footstep 4:  Other software like antivirus programs, or any programs or image files that remain open up on the bulldoze (even Windows Explorer if its window is open and displaying the contents of the external drive) can foreclose safe removal. Close all programs and whatsoever open files or windows displaying the bulldoze contents and attempt to remove the drive again.

Footstep five:  In Windows 7/Vista/XP/2000, please follow these directions:

1. Right-click on (My) Computer.
2. SelectManage.
3. SelectDevice Manager.
4. OpenDisk Drives.
5. Double-click on the hard drive's model number.
6. Get to thePoliciestab.
7. Check whether the drive is fix toOptimize for Quick Removal.

If and then, the hard drive does not demand to be Safely Removed manually from the system.  But turn off the hard bulldoze or disconnect it at your convenience whenever the hard drive is not busy transferring data.
This way there is merely a slim chance that the partition will exist corrupted by a removal.  This carries no risk for the drive hardware, but it does put your data at a small take chances.
 Please remember that you would exist very unwise to put yourself in a state of affairs where that is a concern for y'all.  If this drive were to feel a sudden mechanical or electronic failure or if it should fall, or if the drive's partition should go corrupted, your data could be lost and data recovery is very expensive.  Recollect that this is afill-in drive, and a fill-in is divers as "a second re-create of data in a second storage media".
Whether on a 2d external hard bulldoze, a CD or DVD, an internal hard drive, a network hard drive, or tape, make a 2d copy of your datatoday and go along information technology.
If not, please continue.

Stride vi:  If the Windows Media Histrion Library is configured to monitor a folder on the external drive for new content it volition not let a Safety Remove.
 Instructions may vary depending on the version of Media Player.

1. Open up Media Player.
2. From the top carte, chooseTools, thenOptions.
3. Choose theLibrary tab.
4. Click theMonitor Folders button.
5. View theAdvanced Options.
6. Remove items that bespeak to the drive alphabetic character used by the external drive (ie, E: or F:).

 Other multimedia applications may have similar problems if they automatically add new music to their library by monitoring file locations, specifically on the external drive.

Step 7: If Windows Media Center is set to tape shows, podcasts, etc. to the external drive, Windows may not let the removal of the external drive.

Step eight: If Windows Indexing Service is turned on, Windows may not permit the removal of the external bulldoze, since it causes Windows to constantly watch the drive.

For Windows seven/Vista:

1. Click the Windows start push button in the bottom left of your screen. SelectControl Console, soPrograms and Features.

   

2. SelectTurn Windows features on or off.

   

3. Ostend that theIndexing Service is unchecked. If it is checked, uncheck it and clickOK.

   

4. Double-click onReckoner to open information technology, then correct-click on the external drive'due south drive letter (for example, E:) and selectBackdrop.
5. Uncheck theAllow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties box.

   

6. Then retry the Safe Removal.

For Windows XP:

1. Click on the Starting time menu on the bottom left of your screen. SelectControl Panel and thenAdd/Remove Windows Components.

   

2. Confirm that theIndexing Service is unchecked. If it is checked, uncheck it and clickOK.

   

3. Double-click onMy Computer to open it, then right-click on the external bulldoze's drive letter (for example, E:) and selectProperties.
4. Uncheck thePermit Indexing Service to alphabetize this deejay for fast file searching box.

   

5. And so retry the Safe Removal.

Step nine:  For the SeagatePocket drive - The Pocket drive Toolkit is constantly updating the costless space of the drive and other information in lodge to brandish information technology to the user.

Yous can use the Eject option in the Toolkit or exit the Toolkit software:

1. Right-click on the Toolkit icon in the Organization Tray
2. ChooseExit.

This will release the drive and may allow you to safely remove the bulldoze.

Besides, please see the linked-to Microsoft Support commodity on this topic.

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