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Problems with "safely remove hardware"

by bestotthebest Jun 10, 2005 2:38AM PDT

I have a problem with this safely remove hardware thing for quite a while and I heard that if I just ignore this and just plug the external HD out it will cause a corruption within the HD itself so I tried to remove the device safely from the system at all times.

But recently, when I'm done transferring files from my external HD to my computer and I close all the windows and safely removed the hardware an error message saying: "The device 'Generic Volume' cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later." I also have tried to go to some other drive first like my C: drive and then go to my documents files and close everything and refresh the whole dekstop and when I try again the error message appeared again!

I wonder howcome there's no program running but the HD can't be stopped. Is there like any hidden program running at the background that I may not notice? please help!

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Some programs...

by dagger906 Jun 10, 2005 4:09AM PDT

Some running program is feeding it data. Could be a virus, but probably not. Processes don't just stop immdeiately when you click on the X at right corner of a window. You may want to wait a while. If that doesn't work, just **** the thing off. It won't cause any serious problems... err... usually...

And what is with Generic Volumes? Isn't there a driver or something? o_O

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