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Have to safely eject thumb drive exactly twice every time
This amounts to an annoyance only, but I thought I'd ask in case someone has a solution.
I find I always have to eject my thumb drive exactly twice.
- This happens on at least two laptops:
- A Toshiba Satellite with Windows 10 Home 10586.545
- An Asus X555LA also on the same build of Windows
- Most often I'm using a Cruzer SanDisk drive.
- This is when I use “Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media” from the task bar.
- It always takes exactly two tries. First time get a pop up window “Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device” “Windows is unable to stop the device…” Second time works fine. Even when I do it immediately after the first.
- This happens when all docs involving the thumb drive and the apps that used them are all closed.
- It happens if I plug in the drive, don't do anything, then try to eject.
- Waiting before ejecting doesn’t seem to matter.
- In Task Manager I verified no associated apps running then tried it. Don’t know if there are pertinent background apps.
- If I right click on the drive in the File Explorer tree and select eject it works the first time.
- Another thumb drive, Attache 1GB, behaves the same way.
- Another thumb drive, Kingston 2 GB, behaves the same way.
- I think this happened on at least one of my computers before the Windows 10 upgrade, but I don’t remember the details.
- For the SanDisk at least, select in File Explorer, right click, Properties, Hardware tab, Properties, Change Settings, Policies: Quick Removal is selected.
Does anyone have a fix? Thanks.