I'm using a Belkin powered 7 port USB hub to connect the drives to my eMachines E525 laptop via one of its two USB ports. The drives are main brand only, i.e. western digital, maxtor. The issue...

Quick update - just checked and 45 minutes after I posted the reply above the Eject function has returned for both of the two external drives that were attached. Safely ejected one and then the eject...

OK - just been using an external drive, via powered usb hub, without issue - eject option showing. Plugged in a second drive - again eject option showing and accessed without issue. Plugged in a...

The problem is that when this occurs the drives appear in "This PC" and I can still read/write to them BUT there is no "eject" option until I reboot.

I've been using Win10 since the general release. This was an update install on a Win7 laptop.
Apart from a few issues (waking from sleep on scheduled tasks, lack of control on updates) I have a...