Timeline for How to safely remove a USB drive when "Windows can't stop your 'Generic volume' device because a program is still using it."?
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| Jan 1, 2018 at 22:47 | comment | added | TN. | In my case it says that only "System" is holding the reference. | |
| Jan 7, 2017 at 15:40 | comment | added | Ryan | Upvoted because this tip was pretty cool. Unfortunately, I'm still stuck. I found that explorer.exe was the culprit. I restarted explorer.exe and then did the search again, which resulted in "0 matching items". But I still get the error message "Windows is unable to stop the device...". | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 16:30 | history | answered | XyberICE | CC BY-SA 3.0 |