I get the exact same message almost every time I try to remove my external hard drive using the safely remove hardware function. For some reason it also identifies the single drive as both generic and by its name.
Saying that, unless the disc is obviously being accessed by a running program, if I wait a few seconds and try again and it always come up as safe to remove. Frankly, I think it just errs in favour of caution or more likely that disc was being monitored and the first attempt acts to shut down that process. Whatever the actual reason it has never caused any problem and the need to stop it twice has never taken longer then 10 seconds
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Last edited by BeeCeeBee; 10-12-2008 at 03:04 AM..
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