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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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:17 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 15, 2014 at 21:50 | comment | added | Hennes | Relevant article on technet which talks about closing file handles for deletion, but the same holds in the pendrive case. | |
| Aug 15, 2014 at 21:39 | comment | added | Hennes | Re unlocker: Note that this is dangerous. You will be able to remove your pen drive but you risk corrupting future files when a file handle gets recycled and both the new and the old program try to write data to it. | |
| Sep 6, 2009 at 18:47 | vote | accept | Mike | ||
| Sep 6, 2009 at 18:34 | history | edited | nik | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Sep 6, 2009 at 18:24 | comment | added | opello | I like Unlocker which is dedicated to the task of displaying and freeing open file/directory handles. | |
| Sep 6, 2009 at 18:22 | comment | added | nik |
@Joshua, I have felt that sometimes Windows is Indexing the drive and holds it for that... The "-i" option on RemoveDrive disables the indexing service for a moment to remove the drive.
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| Sep 6, 2009 at 18:21 | comment | added | Joshua Nurczyk | Anything that can tell you what is holding the drive is good. I've gotten this after I closed everything, all explorer windows even. So sometimes Windows just doesn't want to let the drive go. | |
| Sep 6, 2009 at 18:19 | history | edited | nik | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Sep 6, 2009 at 18:12 | history | answered | nik | CC BY-SA 2.5 |