2020年8月19日 · 2- I opened disk management. Right clicked the drive/properties/Events tab/click view all events. I had a brief look. 3- Then I tried to eject the drive from the system tray - safely eject and to my surprise it ejected normally in 2 seconds. 4- Then I closed disk management and turned the drive on again and then tried to eject and it ejected ...

2024年12月27日 · Since installing the Feature Update To Windows 11 Version 24H2 via Windows Update, I can no longer eject my external usb hard drive. I get the message "Windows can't stop your 'Volume' device because a program is still using it. Close any programs that might be using the device and then try again later."

2024年12月27日 · I've seen numerous posts going back to at least 2022 about the issue that Windows 11 can't eject external hard drives. I am having this issue with a WD Easystore hard drive that previously disconnected just fine on Windows 7. The drive consistently says its in use though I am not accessing it manually.

2020年4月30日 · I know you can use C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll to bring up wizard to eject USB device. See if you can Google about Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll and see if there's an api method or some parameter you can pass such as UUID, deviceID, or hardware name or something like that to always …

2018年12月9日 · Locate the External drive you want to remove and right click on it, then select Eject. (Note: Sometimes it is located as Offline for External drive, the next time you put the drive back to the computer for use, you need to go back to the Disk Management and turn it to ‘ …

c) Examine the list of processes, if you find any process belonging to the drive or device, simply end all such processes. d) Try removing it now. Method 2: I would also suggest you to follow the steps and check. 1. Change the Recycle Bin properties for the USB drive from "Custom" to "Don't Move Files to the Recycle Bin.

2024年1月8日 · Hello all. I am greeted with this message whenever I try to eject a plugged USB drive. There is no program using it that I know of and this can happen even after just plugging in a USB device. I had to shut down the computer in order to be able to safely remove my external hard disk in a previous occasion.

2020年10月11日 · If you are on Windows 10, version 1809 and above, you no longer need to eject external USB storage devices. The default removal policy has been changed from Better performance to Quick Removal. Please check this article that I find useful:

2023年12月13日 · I have four external drives. Two SSD 16gb Sandisk thumbdrives, one SSD 1tb Sandisk, and a 2tb HDD Seagate. On my laptop (running windows 11) I have the option to safely eject all of my drives. On my desktop (running windows 11) I only get the option to eject the two thumbdrives but not the larger terabyte ones.

2022年10月31日 · It does eject the USB as expected, and plugging it back in brings the drive back. . If you mean the Windows Explorer UI is not auto-updated, then that is a different matter. When you do this via the taskbar, other OS code is firing …