So how does Vista do with removable drives in general? When one gets the message "the drive cannot be stopped now because a program is accessing it" does Vista either 1) tell you what program to shut down so that no program is accessing the drive, or 2) provide an option to force a stop / dismount of the drive? It appears that a lot of processes do not "flush the cache" or otherwise finalize a write to a drive until the computer is shut down, which is a bummer. Maybe put the machine into hibernation and bring it back out would be quicker?
I have found that when I boot a machine with a flash/thumb drive already inserted in a USB port, it often can't be removed until the computer is shut down. Not always, however. Fred Holmes At 09:15 PM 7/23/2008, mike wrote: >Hotswap worked..to a point. It sees the drive now, but is giving me the >typical cannot be stopped because a program is accessing it. The only thing >I did is connect the drive and move 50 gigs to it as a test. That was >almost two hours ago. > >Mike > >On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Tony B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I dunno about Vista 64, but in WinXP I have to use the freeware >> HotSwap!. Better than the default icon anyway, as it shows more drive >> information; I'd recommend it for everyone. >> http://mysite.verizon.net/kaakoon/hotswap/index_enu.htm >> >> >> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:19 PM, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I just hooked up a new 500 gig esata II drive to my vista 64 box. I have >> > the correct driver installed but the drive isn't showing up in the list >> for >> > drives available to be safely removed. Am I missing a setting? Perhaps >> a >> > BIOS setting? RAID is not enabled on the box. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
