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External Hard Drive refusing to eject.
I keep getting this warning. I use a 1TB Seagate external hard drive.
It occasionally ejects just fine, but mostly it keeps giving me this warning, even after I've long closed out all other programs.
I use a custom built computer with an EVGA GTX 960 graphics card, an Intel Quad-Core i7 CPU, with a Samsung EVO SSD.
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Download WinObj and Procexp from sysinternals
WinObj and
Process Explorer Open Winobj with "Run As Administrator" and expand Device and locate your USB drive. If you only have one internal drive it will be Harddisk1. Right click on it and select Properties. Under the Details tab, References if Handles is greater than 0 then a process has something on the device open Now Open procexp with "Run As Administrator" Click on Find at the top and type in the disk name and click search for this example Harddisk1 Select the process and it will highlight the process and the handle in question In the lower pane of procexp you can right click the handle and close it (please note this could corrupt data on the drive) Once the handle is closed you can safely eject the drive.