Can't eject new WD 2TB Passport Portable Hard Drive without unplugging usb cable
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I ran across the same problems with seagate drives and wd drives.
it can be related to AV scanning your drive, windows keeping a handle etc ...
I solved it with usbview from www.nirsoft.net...
Can't eject new WD 2TB Passport Portable Hard Drive without unplugging usb cable
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I use Acronis - for the second part, make sure you do the "incremental backup"
Can't eject new WD 2TB Passport Portable Hard Drive without unplugging usb cable
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Hi,
So since I found out how bad the WD PASSPORT software is in causing issues, what do you people suggest to use that's a free or low cost software to backup large (300-400gb) hard drive files...
Can't eject new WD 2TB Passport Portable Hard Drive without unplugging usb cable
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Thanks a lot everyone for the feedback. If it happens again, I'll let you all know.
Can't eject new WD 2TB Passport Portable Hard Drive without unplugging usb cable
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Next time, try checking the option at the bottom of your task manager, that says "show processes from all user" as you have 120 processes running and only 79 total in the two screenshots.
That being...
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if you kill a process that is non MS it will not effect your system and the critical processes will not let you kill them if you kill the winamp process and it ejects then you will know winamp is...
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I can only speak to the issue I had but I could not find the culprit until I went into Services and found that a media manager I had installed was causing the problem and I had to manually stop the...
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Hi Vivahate,
I tried using that software yesterday when I was searching on Google for a solution and found that same Microsoft post. It was able to find like 5 handles in the F drive that was...
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System restore will not help it is one of your applications that are running just kill the process in task manager and see if you can eject just keep on killing the non MS processes until it ejects...
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you could try installing something like this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
and putting the drive letter ("f:" for example) in the 'find' menu option. It might...
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Hi Komondor,
I just tried to boot into Safe Mode, and I plugged in the PASSPORT, which it detected, went into the drive, then closed it, and then went to the lower right hand corner of the screen...
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Hi Rocky,
Thanks for replying, as well as the others in this thread.
I went through the Task Manager, and retook the snapshots so that you can see.
I had sorted it by "Description" so that...
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Had a similar issue and finally found the program that had a service running that caused it. Like above mentioned, just have to figure out which one.
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I know that having write caching turned on can cause the same issue
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/10392-write-caching-enable-disable.html
Software like Rocky mentioned is probably the...
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I'll mention the few things that I know.
The WD software is a total clusterphook and even though you believe you removed it, it may still be running and trying to do something with the external HD,...
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Hi,
I'm having a frustrating time working with this newly purchased Western Digital 2TB PASSPORT Portable Hard Drive. I just got it on Friday and unraveled it today.
Initially I plugged it...
