I can use a sysinternals app to show what is still hanging onto the drive. It's usually not a program it's svchost or svhost whatever it is. I think it's the engine that is used to copy/move files. Explorer is the interface for moving files, but explorer doesn't really move them, meaning you don't have to have explorer open to be copying files. Poking around the device manager I'm not given the option to set no caching on my new esata drive...which seems odd. My USB drive I can turn caching off and thus remove the drive without worrying about telling the os to stop it first. I'm thinking this is a chipset/driver/motherboard bios issue.
Mike On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Andy Gallant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >> >> > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
