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 7, 2017 at 16:20 | comment | added | davidtgq | @RockPaperLizard Then there's something wrong with the software. The OS told the program that it's shutting down, it still didn't flush writes and close the file. There's nothing you can do at that point besides smack the developer on the head. | |
| Jul 20, 2016 at 21:17 | comment | added | End Antisemitic Hate |
Shutting down the system was my solution until chkdsk started finding errors after doing that.
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| Nov 2, 2014 at 14:49 | comment | added | starbeamrainbowlabs | @Alex If you shut a computer down, it can't be using a drive if it doesn't have any power. | |
| Oct 9, 2013 at 2:24 | comment | added | Alex | Actually you can't! You'll hear the drive click. But if it's ejected the click doesn't happen. I don't know if that matters, but I've had problems with two external hard-drives (drive appeared unformatted), I suspect it was because of such shutdowns... | |
| Sep 9, 2011 at 8:23 | history | edited | Peter Mortensen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 6, 2009 at 18:34 | history | answered | villares | CC BY-SA 2.5 |