Questions tagged [eject]
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Eject/dismount a drive using PowerShell
I would like to eject/dismount an external USB drive via PowerShell.
Meaning, I want to replicate exactly the behaviour of these UI actions (Ejecting drive via Windows UI):
Currently I am using this ...
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How do you disconnect a USB drive when getting a "this device is currently in use"?
My daughter had her thumb drive plugged into my desktop, doing some work. She finished, logged off of her account and I logged into mine. I noticed that she left her thumb drive in the USB port, and ...
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How To Choose Which Devices Show Up in "Eject Media" in Windows 10?
My "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" menu looks like this:
The "USB 2.0 BILLBOARD" refers to the displays on the CPU's integrated graphics over the USB-C connection. I'm ...
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diskarbitrarationd consumes 100% CPU for 10 minutes after ejecting a USB drive
Recently I've had problems when ejecting a Seagate SRD0SP0 USB 2.0 hard drive from my Macbook. It has two partitions, one is my Time Machine backup, and the other is an ExFAT partition for media. ...
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How can I remove the option to eject internal SATA drives from the Windows 8 tray icon?
The Safely Remove Hardware icon in Windows 8 (and 8.1) offers the ability to eject my internal SATA drives, including the boot drive (see example):
I don't see myself ever needing this - especially ...
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How to remove a drive for USB-stick which is greyed out although no USB-stick is plugged in anymore?
Drives taken by USB-sticks remain greyed out (see D:\ and M:\ in screen-shot) although the USB-sticks are ejected properly by Safely Remove Hardware. The command net use does not list these drives ...
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How to eject an external USB hard drive on Windows
I have a bunch of USB hard drives, but it's very annoying to use them since it's extremely hard to safely eject them. I can of course pull the cable out but then the hard drive heads park abruptly and ...
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How to close the Optical Drive tray in Windows?
I've always wondered why Windows has an Eject option but doesn't include a corresponding Close / Close Tray option in the context menu of optical drives.
Is there a way of closing the optical drive ...
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New external SSD acting up, no eject option
I just got myself an ORICO M.2 NVMe SSD Enclosure USB-C Adapter and put an unused NVMe 1.3 into it (512GB).
When I tried to eject it in the file explorer, there was no eject option, though the format ...
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How to make my external HDD recognized as removable device?
I have an external HDD when I plug it to my pc (Windows 11) it works fine, but the problem is that windows treat it as internal (not removable device) so I can't eject it safely
So my question is how ...
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"Disk Not Ejected Properly" Alert after computer goes to sleep USB3 only
Ok so this is a relatively new one for me, I recently upgraded my computer, both to Yosemite and installing a USB3 Card from Sonnet. I have downloaded the drivers for the Sonnet card, and everything ...
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USB icon (system tray) not working
I have an issue, my USB system tray icon stops working after ejecting a drive; so, after successfully ejecting a disk, does no longer responds to any click, right-click, double-click, does not matter. ...
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Explorer.exe and System prevent the ejection of an external hard drive
I have an external hard drive that I could not eject despite all programs being closed.
I followed the instructions explained in this answer to check which process was preventing the drive from being ...
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Can I disconnect a USB drive while copying is paused in Windows 8?
As you all probably know by now, Windows 8 consolidates all simultaneous file copy operations into one single dialog. Also, wonder of wonders, you can now pause any of the operations as well!
What I ...
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External Drive with bitlocker enabled will not eject from Windows 10
External SSD with bitlocker enabled will not eject from Windows 10, the mbamagent.exe (bitlocker) is preventing the device from being stopped. This also happens with other USB hard drives without ...
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How to obtain the "eject" / "remove safely" for USB on Windows 8?
I've got a very serious problem which I've seen many other users have too: there's simply no way anymore to "eject" / "safely eject" an USB drive from Windows 8 / Windows 8.1.
By googling I realized ...
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Can't safely eject external hard drive on Windows 10. How to Solve it?
Whenever I am trying to eject my external hard drive I am getting "Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device" alert and it is not allowing me to eject the device safely.
(System : Windows 10 ...
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How can I eject a CD via the cmd?
I have been trying to eject the cd drive with the use of the cmd.
However, I am stumped. Searching on the internet, I only found this answer:
eject D:
and a similiar answer
eject D: /I
Both of ...
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No EJECT option to safely eject a portable hard drive Windows 10 system
No EJECT option to safely eject a portable hard drive but if i connect a USB stick there is. How do i safely eject the Portable Hard Drive.
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Ejecting SATA device in Linux
How to eject SATA device properly in Linux?
I know eject command can do it for usb device:
eject usbDevicePath
Does it work same way for SATA devices? Will it sync caches, and properly power down ...
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How can I remove the option to eject SATA drives from the Windows 7 tray icon?
The Safely Remove Hardware icon in Windows 7 offers the ability to eject my SATA drives, including the boot drive. I don't see myself ever needing this - especially not from the convenience of the ...
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Safely Ejecting a Drive - I almost never find any program using the device. Why doesn't Windows say which programs are using the device?
I've read "just pull it out anyway", and I've read "you'll be sorry".
Shouldn't Windows be able to tell me which programs are using the device, and ask me if I want to close those ...
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Why does my dvd player eject spontaneously
Why does my dvd player eject spontaneously even while playing a dvd? This happens on Windows10, and a restart sometimes seems to fix the problem temporarily. I have searched google for this problem, ...
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Eject connected external hard drive using cmd
Is there any way to eject external hard drive safely which is currently connected to the pc only using cmd?
I can only use cmd right now and GUI is out the question.
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How to uneject C drive
I ran the command mountvol c: /D in windows 10 and now the C drive is ejected. Even after a restart it is still ejected. Is there a way to uneject it? I do have a windows installation disk.
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How to unmount a VHD via command line in Windows 10
I need to unmount a VHD with a batch script in Windows 10. The only solution I found online was directed at Windows 7 and involved Diskpart. Are there any other native Windows command line tools ...
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It takes a *very* long time to eject my flashdrives
I am running a fresh install on Debian 8, and I often have to wait a ridiculous time before my flashdrives get ejected (ranging from 1 to 10.. 15 minutes). During this time, I can't access anything ...
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How to eject external harddrive, if it's already offline?
I had issues ejecting 2 external harddrives. I got the usual
Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device
This device is currently in use. Close any programs or windows that
might be using the device and ...
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Eject button is greyed out for external hard drive on Windows 10 [duplicate]
When right clicking my hard drive in This PC, there is no Eject option on the context menu.
Also the Eject button on the ribbon toolbar is greyed out so it won't let me click it. It only appears in ...
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Can't eject drive - any idea what the following processes are? [duplicate]
I am having trouble with the time-honored problem of ejecting 2 external hard drives (Seagate). Windows tells me that both of them have files in use. Handle shows me the following:
PS blarg> ...
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Windows 10: No option to Eject External HARD DRIVE (NOT USB Stick)
When I plug in my external hard drive (again, NOT USB stick), and right click on the icon in This PC, there is no option to eject the drive.
There is a system tray option to "safely eject" it, but ...
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Is it possible to eject a cd in a batch file on Windows XP?
I've seen a few executables/utilities that do it, and many forums that say it is not possible to do. But is there any DOS command that I can rely on in a typical XP installation?
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External HDD periodically ejects itself
I have a 1.5TB external drive (Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex USB 3.0) that's been encountering some issues with my new computer setup.
For several years, I had an ancient Dell laptop running 24/7 to serve ...
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Cannot mount USB after unsafe eject
I have a 16GB usb flash drive and I made it bootable to install Linux Mint.
But for some reason, I couldn't install and did an unsafe eject.
Now, I cannot mount the drive, neither on Windows nor ...
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Drive can't be ejected the first time, despite "Quick removal" being enabled
This related answer isn't relevant because it's FAT-specific and I use NTFS.
I have a 1.5TB BitLocker-encrypted external hard drive formatted in NTFS on which I make large backups using BorgBackup on ...
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Remap Apple MacBook Eject key in Windows?
I have a MacBook with Windows 7 on it as my daily driver.
My MacBook has a nearly useless eject key, but I wish it was a forward delete key. KeyRemap4Macboook works great in OS X. Is there any ...
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Have to eject DVD after every write with growisofs
I am writing files to a DVD with growisofs once a day. Each time I append to the DVD, I have to eject the DVD and then re-load the DVD in order to see the file I just wrote. I am using RHEL 5.0 and ...
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Issue Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device (which program is using it?)
Nothing angers me more than this message:
It's especially annoying when I don't have any programs open, and it's probably some leftover process from something I had open earlier that's still ...
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Whenever I try to safely remove any USB device, I keep getting this error. "WMS Volume Sideband 7" error issue
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I am unable to fix this USB issue. It keeps appearing when I try to safely remove it. Normally, the error should be GENERIC VOLUME but in my case, it shows WMS Volume ...
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Why is my udev rule called twice?
I am working on CentOS 7. I wrote a udev rule in order to start a service each time a cd is inserted.
The udev rule is the following :
KERNEL=="sr1", SUBSYSTEM=="block", ACTION=="change", ENV{...
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Internal Blu-Ray drive not recognized
This only just started happening yesterday, but when I put a BD disk into the drive and tried to do anything with it (just right clicking on the BD drive in Windows explorer), Windows explorer would ...
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Where to connect the eject cable
Hello I have bought the chasis of an HP Slim Line S5747C with the factory motherboard and no DVD Rom. I added my own DVD Rom, but as you can see from the picture there is a separate eject button, ...
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How can I force my Mac Mini to eject a DVD
Today I put a movie DVD into my Mac Mini, but the Finder doesn't show it => the Mac doesn't seem to know it is there.
How can I force an eject?
Note: Booting with all kinds of keys CMD, ALT, Apple ...
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Differences in unplugging an external hard drive from USB2 port vs USB3?
On a Win7 laptop, when I plug in any external USB3 platter-based hard drive into a...
USB3 port, and then click on the Eject option in the system tray (and receive the Windows message that it safe to ...
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Eject USB drive using the explorer
When I right click a drive in the This PC view which is associated with an SD card I have the option in the context menu to eject it. If it is associated with a USB flash drive this option doesn't ...
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How does SanDisk name drives in eject dialog
I have a Sandisk Cruzer Blade flash drive and its been driving me insane trying to figure out how they make it say Eject Cruzer Blade instead of Eject Removable Disc.
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How do you disconnect a USB drive when getting a “this device is currently in use” without Unlocker?
This question was asked three years ago and the suggested Unlocker has since (March 2015) been described by HowToGeek as only available with malware wrappers.
I need a methodology described to do it ...
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Why are large amounts of data from an HDD accessible minutes after unplugging it?
I expect this has to do with caching, but the amount of time and data, and the lack of error messages, has surprised me. This is not an SSD.
A Windows-10 system that I have seen myself (through ...
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Built-in hardware appearing as ejectable USB devices under Windows 7
I have installed Windows 7 Ultimate 32 Bit on a Code 2 Duo laptop that originally came with Vista Home Premium OEM. Windows Update has successfully configured all hardware. However, now I see three ...
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How do I recover files from an USB flash drive?
I have a flash drive that was used primarily on a Mac, and it was ejected improperly.
Now when I put it back in, the computer (I tried 2 different Macs and 3 PCs) does not even register the flash ...