Re: USB Drive can't be removed

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"Aldo" <aldo1904@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:830D494C-BA1D-43BD-BC08-ECFC7A7E17E4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thanks for your answer. The eject option gives me the same message about a program still using it. By the way, of course I checked the task manager and my music program (MediaMonkey) was completely closed.

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"Aldo" <aldo1904@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3A69B07A-ED8B-43F5-92C7-153D67E1B0F0@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I use a ZIP USB Drive for my music collection. When I finish hearing music, I try to remove the USB and get a message about a program still using it. I tried closing every program and even disabling my antivirus without success. It worked fine with Windows XP. Any ideas? TIA.

Try to eject the disk using the eject command from Windows Explorer or from Computer (right click on the drive letter for the option.) Once the disk is ejected it should free up the remove the USB lock that you are experiencing. I have a USB ZIP drive but haven't tried it with Vista yet. I have had to do this with XP however and it worked most times. Of course you may have issues with the eject for the drive also if the OS has locked the drive and I have had issues with this in the past also with XP.

If you are not writing to the drive, only reading your music files you should have no problem just unplugging the USB drive. The caution for using the safe remove option is normally used to ensure that all data being written to a drive has been written prior to removal of the drive.


You still have some program locking access to the drive and it is probably you music program. ( I have just hooked up my USB Zip to Vista to test a few things and it works good.)

Try rebooting the computer to clear any access to the drive. Immediately try to eject the disk. If it is not released at that time, you have a program that is loading at startup that is locking the drive and you will need to find out that program.

If the first test is successful in removing the disk, try using Windows Media Player (I know, I don't like it too much either) to play a few of the songs and see if the drive is locked after playing them. If not, I would suspect that the player you are using is still keeping something locked in the system even when closed. You may be able to find it in the Task Manager, processes and see if you see anything running there related to your music player.

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