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External HD ALWAYS reports that it is in use when ejecting device
I have a WD 4TB Elements HD (2.5" USB 3 device). I use this to backup my laptop computer.
I'm finding that when I try to perform a clean eject of this drive it ALWAYS reports that the drive is in use and NEVER gives the okay to eject the drive.
What's odd about this is that I don't have this problem with any other devices. I use a lot of thumb drives and SSDs and they always allow an eject operation with no difficulties.
My solution is to simply no longer even bother trying to cleanly eject the drive - so long as I'm not actively doing anything with it, I simply yank out the USB cable, but that doesn't give me the warm fuzzies.
Anyone else see this issue and possibly have a solution?
This on Win 10 20H2.
I should note that I have closed every single program and even disabled antivirus scanning to see if it might be responsible. No luck.