Why does my external drive not eject the first time

[tal ormanda]

I hit eject the first time it says its in use then right after it lets it disconnect.

[joe43wv]

I've had this problem before too, apparently you have something either running from the drive or writing to the drive in the background, and when you tell it to shutdown the first time it kills the task and allows it to shutdown the second time around. I don't really know anyway of fixing this bug.

[Redhatcc]

just being nosy i would open task manager and watch what processes that start when you plug in your drive and when you eject your drive. As far as a fix i wouldnt know of anything unless you update the driver that runs it from the website?

[mara-]

Use Unlocker before you try to eject first time and you''ll see what's keeping it from ejecting.

Cheers

[tal ormanda]

As long as I know its common I'm fine.

[joe43wv]

I found this download on PC World this morning, I haven't tried it but I think it'll do EXACTLY what your needing.

http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,...ml?tk=nl_ddxdwn

[tal ormanda]

I will give that a go.

[joe43wv]

I tested the software yesterday afternoon and works like a champ. I tried removing it using Windows and of course got the error, then tried that app. and just 2 clicks and it was removed. It's great and it FREE!!!