Questions tagged [eject]
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Unable to eject disc from laptop [duplicate]
I am using a Alienware mx14 and am unable to eject the hard disc from my laptop .
I have tried to right click and eject but i get the following error message :
I have tried the following from ...
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How do I remove internal SATA disks from the "Safely Remove Hardware" menu?
I have installed Windows 7 (Ultimate) on a PC with an ASRock 960GM/U3S3 FX motherboard, which is an AMD AM3+ motherboard with an AMD 760G/SB710 chipset. Everything installed OK with the latest drivers ...
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Can't eject an external hard drive
I was attempting to backup my system with Time Machine and for whatever reason a passerby disrupted the hard drive wire and the backup failed due to an 'improper ejection'. Now, after attempting to ...
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Why must I always press the hardware eject button when a CD, DVD or Blu-Ray disc fails to read correctly? [closed]
The compact disc (CD, DVD, Blu-Ray) has been around for at least two decades - and yet if my computer has a problem reading a disc it will continue spinning away until I physically eject the disc by ...
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Samsung NP355V4C optical drive completely disconnected [closed]
This laptop is less than a year old. It runs Windows 7. Today I found I could not open the DVD drive by pressing the eject button on it. It does not show up in My Computer. I found the manual ...
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LXDE - what command is isued when "eject" icon is pressed to umount FS
Hello I have Fedora 16 with LXDE and I want to connect ipod shuffle 2nd gen 1GB. According to this page ipod shuffle led blinking codes when amber LED is blinking this means that device is accessing ...
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How do I eject the media devices or phones that are group under the Portable Devices category since there is no eject options
I notice that media player or Android phones (using MTP mode) that is connect to Windows, they are usually group under the Portable Devices category. Under this category, when you right-click, there ...
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Ejecting SATA device in Linux
How to eject SATA device properly in Linux?
I know eject command can do it for usb device:
eject usbDevicePath
Does it work same way for SATA devices? Will it sync caches, and properly power down ...
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How can I eject a memory card or other removable media from the command line (without removing the reader)?
I can eject a network drive using net use X: /DELETE but when I try to use this same command on removable media I get an error:
The network connection could not be found.
More help is available by ...
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How can I programmatically “eject” a keychain on OS X?
I'm using a script to eject a small USB key I use as a “identity” drive, which contains some secure information. Of note, it has an OS X “keychain” file on it, which contains some of my more secure ...
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Disable possibility to eject internal hardrives
I recently installed Windows 7 Home Premium and suddenly saw that I could eject my internal hard drives:
With my previous installation (Professional), this was not possible. How could a (by ...
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Cannot mount USB after unsafe eject
I have a 16GB usb flash drive and I made it bootable to install Linux Mint.
But for some reason, I couldn't install and did an unsafe eject.
Now, I cannot mount the drive, neither on Windows nor ...
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diskarbitrarationd consumes 100% CPU for 10 minutes after ejecting a USB drive
Recently I've had problems when ejecting a Seagate SRD0SP0 USB 2.0 hard drive from my Macbook. It has two partitions, one is my Time Machine backup, and the other is an ExFAT partition for media. ...
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can't eject one USB drive at at time: can only eject GROUPS of drives (Windows 7)
I can't eject one USB drive at at time; I can only eject GROUPS of drives. Using the eject USB drives icon in the system tray, the drives are grouped (in ways that I don't understand; maybe by USB ...
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Why do I need to eject an ipod before disconnecting it?
Is there any good reason that I need to wait for iTunes to give me permission to remove an iPod from my computer?
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