Can't safely remove Seagate Expansion drive connected using USB3.0SS


  1. Posts : 2
    Win10
       #1

    Can't safely remove Seagate Expansion drive connected using USB3.0SS


    I've got a Seagate Expansion drive connected to my PC using a USB A - USB 3.0 micro B cable.
    I'm unable to find any "Safely remove" option, and at one point when unsafely removing I got a blue screen.
    I've tried:

    • The tray. Nothing there.
    • Running "rundll32 shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll", and the drive does not show up there.
    • Looking in device manager. There it shows under "Disk drives" as "Seagate Expansion SCSI Disk Device" and I see that under "Storage controllers" I've got a "USB Attached SCSI (UAS) Mass Storage Device".
    • If I on the device go right click, "Properties", "Hardware", select it, "Properties", "Policies" it has no "Removal policy" options. Only "Write-caching policy" options.

    How do I make Windows understand/handle this drive as an external drive that can be safely removed?
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  2. Posts : 1,366
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #2

    Are your USB Chipset drivers up to date?
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  3. Posts : 268
    Windows 10 Pro x64 v22H2
       #3

    There's a Seagate KB on the topic. Does it help?

    Windows will not allow me to safely remove my drive. It keeps reporting the drive is busy or in use

    /* EDIT */
    What is your actual Seagate model? Some drives are configured as non-removable by the vendor
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  4. Posts : 268
    Windows 10 Pro x64 v22H2
       #4

    Better yet here's how to check for yourself if your device tells Windows if it's removable. Download USBTreeView. Select your drive and check capabilities and status in the Device Descriptor.
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  5. Posts : 2
    Win10
    Thread Starter
       #5

    So I've been testing this for a while now, and I got it working on several other computers.
    Somehow it seems to have something to do with a specific set of USB 3.0 ports on the back of my computer. The one I was using didn't give me a "Safely remove" option, but when testing some of the others the option appeared.
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