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cannot eject external drive
I have an external drive that I cannot eject. The error is that the disk is in use, but even when I close all of my apps, it is still locked. I've tried device troubleshooting and nothing... I've ...
Hello,
You might need to identify the process that is using the drive and have to terminate that first. Have you tried turning off the device and eject that external drive?
Regards.
Yes, I know that I can shut down and disconnect, but I don't have enough ports so am unplugging a lot and need to make this work
The warning is telling me that a process is locking the drive, but it isn't telling me what that process is. In Task Manager, I've closed all my apps except Malwarebytes tray app. Might that be the problem?
I've also used procexp and it shows 2 instances of explorer.exe. Why would those be running when they aren't appearing in the Task Mgr? Might they be indexing?