Maybe something is using it, like Windows Explorer, or maybe something
is waiting (or hanging), like Norton Ghost (or an MS Office program that
didn't close all the way). Some thoughts on possible culprits/cures:
-close any windows showing drives/folders,
-blame norton, or indexing, or anything else that might be waiting or
scanning,
-see what's running in Task Manager to see what to kill,
-log off and then on (might work - takes less time than a restart),
-maybe something like Outlook or Word is still running (see bullet 3),
-download Process Explorer
(http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx).
Is there a definitive answer? I don't know. Good luck.
-Andy
Chris Dunford wrote:
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
No, Vista does not tell you which program is supposedly using the drive. I
suspect that this is more a driver issue than a Vista issue, though.
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