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Cannot eject safely an external USB drive
Hello,
Recently I bought one "WD Elements" 1TB external drive for data storage. When attachet it to the pc, it was found by the file explorer, it is already NTFS formated, one whole partition.
On it found "WD Smartware pro trial" installer and an 'autorun.inf' file.
Nothing was written to the drive yet. Then I wanted to eject it, but right-click in the file explorer was not the option 'eject', so I opened the 'show hidden icons' and cliced on 'safely remove/eject' the drive, got a notice as on attached screenshot.
Disabled AVG antivirus, Ccleaner monitoring, File indexing, still could not eject it.
In devices and printers tried to remove the drive - failed, ran troubleshooter, it fixed some problem, again tried to eject safely, still warning from the system.
Finally had to shut down the computer to disconnect the drive.
Is the 'autorun.inf' file creating the trouble ?
I do not intend to use the program "WD Smartware pro trial" it is not installed, this is only the installer, can I delete both the installer and the 'autorun.inf'.
After I overcome this problem, I want to re-partition the drive
So here I ask for your help, please.
Thanks
Motim