- remove hardware wont remove
- Posted by Greg on October 16th, 2005
Win xp home with SP2 dell inspiron notebook
I have a smart disk firelite usb hard drive and since I got SP2 the remove
hardware winzard say the device cannot be stopped right now. My usb floppy
drive does the same thing. Ive seen the posts here about it
does MS have a solution?
Greg
- Posted by Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE on October 16th, 2005
"Greg" <greg555@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Win xp home with SP2 dell inspiron notebook
>
> I have a smart disk firelite usb hard drive and since I got SP2 the
> remove hardware winzard say the device cannot be stopped right now.
> My usb floppy drive does the same thing. Ive seen the posts here
> about it
> does MS have a solution?
>
> Greg
That often means that the system is waiting to write something to the drive.
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- Posted by Jan Alter on October 16th, 2005
I've gotten that message too on XP with SP2, but if I wait a bit and try
again the drive gets released.
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"Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" <franksaunders@mvps.org> wrote in message
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> "Greg" <greg555@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
> news:Vpy4f.8892$6l.8768@bignews3.bellsouth.net
>> Win xp home with SP2 dell inspiron notebook
>>
>> I have a smart disk firelite usb hard drive and since I got SP2 the
>> remove hardware winzard say the device cannot be stopped right now.
>> My usb floppy drive does the same thing. Ive seen the posts here
>> about it
>> does MS have a solution?
>>
>> Greg
>
> That often means that the system is waiting to write something to the
> drive.
>
> --
> Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
> Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
> http://www.fjsmjs.com
> Protect your PC
> http://www.microsoft.com./athome/sec...t/default.aspx
> http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/
>
>
- Posted by Greg on October 16th, 2005
Ive tried waiting too, but the same message keeps popping up
"Jan Alter" <bearpuf@verizon.net> wrote in message
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> I've gotten that message too on XP with SP2, but if I wait a bit and try
> again the drive gets released.
>
> --
> Jan Alter
> bearpuf@verizon.net
> or
> jalter@phila.k12.pa.us
> "Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE" <franksaunders@mvps.org> wrote in message
> news:eitst7o0FHA.2652@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...
>> "Greg" <greg555@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
>> news:Vpy4f.8892$6l.8768@bignews3.bellsouth.net
>>> Win xp home with SP2 dell inspiron notebook
>>>
>>> I have a smart disk firelite usb hard drive and since I got SP2 the
>>> remove hardware winzard say the device cannot be stopped right now.
>>> My usb floppy drive does the same thing. Ive seen the posts here
>>> about it
>>> does MS have a solution?
>>>
>>> Greg
>>
>> That often means that the system is waiting to write something to the
>> drive.
>>
>> --
>> Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE
>> Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email
>> http://www.fjsmjs.com
>> Protect your PC
>> http://www.microsoft.com./athome/sec...t/default.aspx
>> http://defendingyourmachine.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>
>
- Posted by Rock on October 16th, 2005
Greg wrote:
> Win xp home with SP2 dell inspiron notebook
>
> I have a smart disk firelite usb hard drive and since I got SP2 the remove
> hardware winzard say the device cannot be stopped right now. My usb floppy
> drive does the same thing. Ive seen the posts here about it
>
> does MS have a solution?
>
> Greg
One option is to turn off write caching. Right click My Computer |
Properties | Hardware | Device Manager. Expand the Disk drives
category. Double click the hard drive in question. On the Policies tab
put a tic mark in Optimize for quick removal.
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MS MVP Windows - Shell/User
- Posted by Greg on October 18th, 2005
I forgot to add that I already tried the write cache trick. no results.
"Rock" <rock@mail.nospam.net> wrote in message
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> Greg wrote:
>
>> Win xp home with SP2 dell inspiron notebook
>>
>> I have a smart disk firelite usb hard drive and since I got SP2 the
>> remove hardware winzard say the device cannot be stopped right now. My
>> usb floppy drive does the same thing. Ive seen the posts here about it
>>
>> does MS have a solution?
>>
>> Greg
>
> One option is to turn off write caching. Right click My Computer |
> Properties | Hardware | Device Manager. Expand the Disk drives category.
> Double click the hard drive in question. On the Policies tab put a tic
> mark in Optimize for quick removal.
>
> --
> Rock
> MS MVP Windows - Shell/User
>
- Posted by Rock on October 18th, 2005
Greg wrote:
> I forgot to add that I already tried the write cache trick. no results.
> "Rock" <rock@mail.nospam.net> wrote in message
> news:ewobbLq0FHA.4032@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>
>>Greg wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Win xp home with SP2 dell inspiron notebook
>>>
>>>I have a smart disk firelite usb hard drive and since I got SP2 the
>>>remove hardware winzard say the device cannot be stopped right now. My
>>>usb floppy drive does the same thing. Ive seen the posts here about it
>>>
>>>does MS have a solution?
>>>
>>>Greg
>>
>>One option is to turn off write caching. Right click My Computer |
>>Properties | Hardware | Device Manager. Expand the Disk drives category.
>>Double click the hard drive in question. On the Policies tab put a tic
>>mark in Optimize for quick removal.
>>
>>--
>>Rock
>>MS MVP Windows - Shell/User
Ok Greg, sorry but I don't have any other suggestions.
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Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User
