Removable drives "cannot be stopped right now"

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The other thread reminded me of a problem that's been bugging me
lately. My Dell Latitude D600 nearly always gives me "...cannot be
stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later" error
messages when I try to remove my D-Bay hard drive, my USB keychain
drive, my CD-Rom drive, etc.

Is there any way to tell what programs (Windows thinks) have the drive
open, so I can remove the devices without rebooting?

[Yeah, it does it to the D-Bay hard drive even when I don't have a
swap file on it...]

Thanks!

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When that happens with my USB hard drive, I close the warning box and hit
the stop button again and it stops it with no problems. I don't know why the
first try doesn't work, but the second try always does.

--
Kenneth Wolf
kwolf8380@comcast.net
<William P. N. Smith> wrote in message
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> The other thread reminded me of a problem that's been bugging me
> lately. My Dell Latitude D600 nearly always gives me "...cannot be
> stopped right now. Try stopping the device again later" error
> messages when I try to remove my D-Bay hard drive, my USB keychain
> drive, my CD-Rom drive, etc.
>
> Is there any way to tell what programs (Windows thinks) have the drive
> open, so I can remove the devices without rebooting?
>
> [Yeah, it does it to the D-Bay hard drive even when I don't have a
> swap file on it...]
>
> Thanks!
>

Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops (More info?)

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Hi William,

Process Explorer will tell you what processes are active and what
files the processes are using.

Ciao . . . C.Joseph

That which a man buys too cheaply . . .
He esteems too lightly


William P. N. Smith wrote:
> Is there any app that will tell me _why_ I can't stop my devices now?
>
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