USB Drive - Ties Up Vista - Can't Safely Remove

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Hi,

My WD2500 250G USB drive does things with Vista that annoy me:

-the drive starts spooling up/spinning even if I have not made any
read/write requests from it
-while it's spooling up, is slows down Vista severely, causing me to want to
Eject it
-while the drive is spinning, I can't safely eject, error, drive is in use
by another program, even when I have no programs running, or files open.

Can you help?
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Thanks
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