Problem Ejecting USB Attached HDD


  1. Hairy Scot
    Posts : 323
    Windows 10 Pro 22H2 Build 19045.2788
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    Problem Ejecting USB Attached HDD


    This is an intermittently recurring issue on my Windows 10 Pro system.
    Process Explorer shows:-
    Problem Ejecting USB Attached HDD-screenshot-2023-09-01-102727.jpg

    I assume killing System would not be a good idea, so I have to restart.

    Is there any way around this?
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  3. hsehestedt
    Posts : 4,187
    Windows 11 Pro, 22H2
       New #2

    If you use the default policies, then there is no need to eject the drive.

    See this tutorial for details:

    Enable or Disable Disk Write Caching in Windows 10
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  4. MisterEd
    Posts : 2,191
    Windows 10 Pro 64-bit v22H2
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    hsehestedt said:
    If you use the default policies, then there is no need to eject the drive.

    See this tutorial for details:

    Enable or Disable Disk Write Caching in Windows 10
    That is because the default for USB connected drives to have Write Caching disabled. Because of that most times you don't have to eject the drive.

    However, you always need to check that you don't have any applications open that haven't updated to the drive. If you just pull the drive and not close any open applications you might lose any unsaved data. I have gotten burned doing that before. To prevent that I don't have applications write to one of these drives directly. I first copy any the files to my computer, modify them, and then copy the files back to the drive.
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