Problem ejecting devices from laptop

I don't have my Windows Version number with me at this time. I'm on a different computer.

My laptop is not allowing me to do a proper "eject" of external devices anymore. First, it was a flash drive. I also tried a SD card from an older digital camera. I always get the error message telling me that I can't eject the device.
However, when I'm at the public library and using one of their computers (as I am right now), I never have a problem. That seems to indicate a laptop problem rather than one with the flash drive.

I tried using Google to find a solution, but the sources I found seem to indicate that the problem is most likely with the flash drive, but my experience seems to indicate otherwise.

Also (and I'm not sure this is related), when I use the public library computer to create a Word document, save it to the FD, and then bring it home to my laptop and open the file, it's always said to be corrupted and unreadable. Well, I saved one of those "corrupted" files on the FD, opened it at the library, and it turns out to NOT be corrupted at all.

So many issues, and I wonder if they're related.

I'll also point out that I recently ran SFC/scannow for a different issue recently. It showed that there were error found and corrected. The problem is that every time I put the computer to "sleep", it shut down instead. Now it doesn't. The point being that I already ran SFC/scannow, but it didn't fix the main problem I'm having now, even though it fixed a different one.

Nothing to help you when using a Public computing device, sorry.

bro67 said:

Nothing to help you when using a Public computing device, sorry.

It's my personal laptop that isn't letting me eject anything.
The public computer is what I was writing my post from.

In Powershell [admin ] run ---dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth ---and when finished,then run ---sfc /scannow ---until a clean report is given.

joeandmarg0 said:

In Powershell [admin ] run ---dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth ---and when finished,then run ---sfc /scannow ---until a clean report is given.

I'm not familiar with Powershell.
But once I figure it out, is "dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth" what I'm supposed to type into it?

EDIT: After doing a google search of that command, I'm seeing that it's done in the Command Prompt. Is that what you meant by Powershell?

bro67 said:

Yes, you copy that info that was posted into Powershell or cmd.

Awesome! I'll be giving it a try when I get home today.

I also googled that command line and found the same thing ending with CheckHealth and ScanHealth. I might give those a try first to see if they would tell me what the problem is before it gets fixed with RestoreHealth.

I had run sfc/scannow recently and it showed that there were corrupted files that were found and fixed. But I guess that wouldn't be the command that would fix this particular problem. It did fix a different one though.

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bro67 said:

Yes, you copy that info that was posted into Powershell or cmd.

Well, I tried it and it's not being accepted.
I went to command prompt, opened it as administrator, and tried what you said, plus 2 other versions, with the end part being CheckHealth, and ScanHealth. In all 3 instances, I got the same result:

Error 87
The online/cleanup-image/restorehealth option is unknown.
For more information, refer to the help by running DISM.exe /?.

The DISM log file can be found at C:\WINDOWS\Logs\DISM\dism.log

I even googled it to make sure I was typing the line correctly. I was.
dism/online/cleanup-image/restorehealth. I even tried capitalizing DISM, but it made no difference.

There is a space before every /
Your last line in post 8 does not give the space.