Safely remove hardware

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I'm using a Sandisk cruzer 1gb usb flash memory device - works great.
Sometimes - not always- when I click on the safely remove hardware icon and
select the device, I get a message that says the device is busy and can not
be removed - try later. I try again and get same message. I'm only doing
simple file transfers and wait several minutes after a transfer before I try
to remove it. What is not working?

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Thanks for the reply. With simple file tansfers everything works as expected.
I think I have isolated the times I do have a problem with the encrytion
software I am using. If I encrypt a file, save to the cruzer, close
everything down, try to remove cruzer using the "safely remove hardware
icon". I get the device is busy message. I will try to contact the encryption
software (Cruzerlock2) people.

"Yves Leclerc" wrote:

> You need to have all Explorer windows/DOS windows which are accessing the
> drive letter for the Curzer closed.
>
>
> "tk" <tk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:512EBD63-B390-4728-ABFB-44A2D2413F7B@microsoft.com...
> > I'm using a Sandisk cruzer 1gb usb flash memory device - works great.
> > Sometimes - not always- when I click on the safely remove hardware icon
> > and
> > select the device, I get a message that says the device is busy and can
> > not
> > be removed - try later. I try again and get same message. I'm only doing
> > simple file transfers and wait several minutes after a transfer before I
> > try
> > to remove it. What is not working?
> >
>
>
>