Maxtor external drive

Folks
I have a Maxtor 250g fire wire external drive that is recognized by vista
and allows for file transfers etc no problems. The problem I have is when I
have finished say doing a backup or other activity to the drive and wish to
remove it from the system, it will not "remove" itself and when using the
safely remove hardware it just sits there saying some program is using it so
it cannot shutdown. Task manager will show that nothing is operating. Any
suggestions?

If I attempt to shut the whole system down it just hangs.

regards

Don

Try closing all Explorer windows, then open a new one to view the drive,
refresh it, then close the Explorer window. See if it will eject then. If
not, check to make sure that it is set to be optimized for quick removal -
run the Disk Management tool, right-click the removable drive, click
Properties, then the Policies tab, and finally select the option to optimize
for quick removal.

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"Don" <mackie.don@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> Folks
> I have a Maxtor 250g fire wire external drive that is recognized by vista
> and allows for file transfers etc no problems. The problem I have is when
> I have finished say doing a backup or other activity to the drive and wish
> to remove it from the system, it will not "remove" itself and when using
> the safely remove hardware it just sits there saying some program is using
> it so it cannot shutdown. Task manager will show that nothing is
> operating. Any suggestions?
>
> If I attempt to shut the whole system down it just hangs.
>
> regards
>
> Don

Richard

finally found a solution. I had a usb card reader attached to the system
and that has to be "removed" first to enable the hard drive to be removed.
Thanks for your efforts
Don

"Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@email.com> wrote in message
news:A2D9002D-2FAD-4E52-B19E-7026A9CBC802@microsoft.com...
> Try closing all Explorer windows, then open a new one to view the drive,
> refresh it, then close the Explorer window. See if it will eject then.
> If not, check to make sure that it is set to be optimized for quick
> removal - run the Disk Management tool, right-click the removable drive,
> click Properties, then the Policies tab, and finally select the option to
> optimize for quick removal.
>
> --
> Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] rgharper@gmail.com
> * NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
> * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
> * The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/
> * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>
>
> "Don" <mackie.don@bigpond.com> wrote in message
> news:OiRqJefHIHA.4880@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Folks
>> I have a Maxtor 250g fire wire external drive that is recognized by vista
>> and allows for file transfers etc no problems. The problem I have is
>> when I have finished say doing a backup or other activity to the drive
>> and wish to remove it from the system, it will not "remove" itself and
>> when using the safely remove hardware it just sits there saying some
>> program is using it so it cannot shutdown. Task manager will show that
>> nothing is operating. Any suggestions?
>>
>> If I attempt to shut the whole system down it just hangs.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Don
>

That's odd, but if it works then I'm glad you figured it out.

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"Don" <mackie.don@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> Richard
>
> finally found a solution. I had a usb card reader attached to the system
> and that has to be "removed" first to enable the hard drive to be removed.
> Thanks for your efforts
> Don
>
> "Richard G. Harper" <rgharper@email.com> wrote in message
> news:A2D9002D-2FAD-4E52-B19E-7026A9CBC802@microsoft.com...
>> Try closing all Explorer windows, then open a new one to view the drive,
>> refresh it, then close the Explorer window. See if it will eject then.
>> If not, check to make sure that it is set to be optimized for quick
>> removal - run the Disk Management tool, right-click the removable drive,
>> click Properties, then the Policies tab, and finally select the option to
>> optimize for quick removal.
>>
>> --
>> Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] rgharper@gmail.com
>> * NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
>> * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
>> * The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/
>> * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
>>
>>
>> "Don" <mackie.don@bigpond.com> wrote in message
>> news:OiRqJefHIHA.4880@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>>> Folks
>>> I have a Maxtor 250g fire wire external drive that is recognized by
>>> vista and allows for file transfers etc no problems. The problem I have
>>> is when I have finished say doing a backup or other activity to the
>>> drive and wish to remove it from the system, it will not "remove" itself
>>> and when using the safely remove hardware it just sits there saying some
>>> program is using it so it cannot shutdown. Task manager will show that
>>> nothing is operating. Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> If I attempt to shut the whole system down it just hangs.
>>>
>>> regards
>>>
>>> Don
>>
>