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Safely Remove Hardware
When trying to safely remove a SanDisk Cruzer 2GB flash drive on my new
laptop, it does not stop the device. Actually, nothing happens. The icon does appear in the taskbar, but it just doesn't do anything. When trying to remove it via windows explorer, explorer freezes and has to be restarted. When shutting down or restarting Vista with the USB device still attached it freezes. In safe mode, the device does stop after using "safely remove hardware" and I get this message that it has been stopped. Is this a problem of Vista or is it my new laptop? Thanks in advance! |
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what do you mean when you say "it does not stop the device"? do you see
the dialog box that says that the device can be safely removed now? or is it that the LED on the device doesn't go off? - farhan -----Original Message----- From: Sandrien13 ] Posted At: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:20 AM Posted To: microsoft.public.windows.vista.hardware_devices Conversation: Safely Remove Hardware Subject: Safely Remove Hardware When trying to safely remove a SanDisk Cruzer 2GB flash drive on my new laptop, it does not stop the device. Actually, nothing happens. The icon does appear in the taskbar, but it just doesn't do anything. When trying to remove it via windows explorer, explorer freezes and has to be restarted. When shutting down or restarting Vista with the USB device still attached it freezes. In safe mode, the device does stop after using "safely remove hardware" and I get this message that it has been stopped. Is this a problem of Vista or is it my new laptop? Thanks in advance! |
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Same problem On a Vista Ultimate Desktop. Light on the drive stays on. Yet Vista says it is safe to remove it! Watch out I have had to format my thumb drive thanks to VISTA! No problems with XP just Vista Machines. Is this just the Cruzer Micro 2.0 GB thumb drive problem or all thumb drives? I have lost a lot of work and time with only a few weeks left in the semester thanks to Vista! Looking for a Vista that works with all thumb drives. -- ttooley |
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"ttooley" wrote in message
... Same problem On a Vista Ultimate Desktop. As what? Please QUOTE the post you are replying to. Light on the drive stays on. Yet Vista says it is safe to remove it! Watch out I have had to format my thumb drive thanks to VISTA! No problems with XP just Vista Machines. Is this just the Cruzer Micro 2.0 GB thumb drive problem or all thumb drives? Must be the Cruzer - I have a Freecom 1GB databar and a Hisun 4GB flash drive, and neither of those cause me any problems on Vista Home Premium - are you ABSOLUTELY sure that nothing is using the drive when you remove it? Like an Explorer window for example? |
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"Sandrien13" wrote in message
... When trying to safely remove a SanDisk Cruzer 2GB flash drive on my new laptop, it does not stop the device. Actually, nothing happens. The icon does appear in the taskbar, but it just doesn't do anything. When trying to remove it via windows explorer, explorer freezes and has to be restarted. When shutting down or restarting Vista with the USB device still attached it freezes. In safe mode, the device does stop after using "safely remove hardware" and I get this message that it has been stopped. Is this a problem of Vista or is it my new laptop? Thanks in advance! In Vista Device Manager, right click on the removable drive and select Properties and then the Policies tab. You will have two choices. One choice does not use the Safely Remove process. The other choice does use the Safely Remove process. Don |
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what do you mean when you say "it does not stop the device"? do you see
the dialog box that says that the device can be safely removed now? or is it that the LED on the device doesn't go off? I don't see the dialog box and the LED doesn't go off. But in safe mode the dialog box does appear! Any idea what this is? |
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are you ABSOLUTELY sure that nothing is using the drive when you remove it?
Like an Explorer window for example? In my case I'm absolutely sure of that. |
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In Vista Device Manager, right click on the removable drive and select
Properties and then the Policies tab. You will have two choices. One choice does not use the Safely Remove process. The other choice does use the Safely Remove process. I have a hard time trying to figure this one out, since my vista is in dutch. When I go to the properties of the removable drive I don't get a Policies tab, nor a dutch equivalent of it. Is it the first, second or third tab of the properties window? |
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"Sandrien13" wrote in message
... In Vista Device Manager, right click on the removable drive and select Properties and then the Policies tab. You will have two choices. One choice does not use the Safely Remove process. The other choice does use the Safely Remove process. I have a hard time trying to figure this one out, since my vista is in dutch. When I go to the properties of the removable drive I don't get a Policies tab, nor a dutch equivalent of it. Is it the first, second or third tab of the properties window? In my English {US} Vista Home Premium, in Device Manage Properties, it is the second tab from left. Don |
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For the LED not going off case, there was an intentional behavioral
change from XP to Vista, where the USB bus driver does not turn off the hub port to which the device is attached when the device is "soft removed" i.e. it is still plugged in physically. A lot of USB flash drives are wired to keep the LED on whenever they detect traffic on the bus, but they do not differentiate between traffic directed at them, versus other device traffic. If that is the case, the LED would not go off. So yes, that is expected. When a device is asked to be "safely removed", a notification is sent down the device stack and to applications registered to receive notifications about state changes on the device. Anyone on the stack, or any applications which receives this notification, can then "veto" the removal if they are actively using the device (to prevent data loss). This may be why you are not seeing the dialog box as some application or service might be taking long to respond to this notification. In safe mode, that application or service might not be started, and so the dialog box is displayed. I hope that makes sense, Farhan On Apr 23, 12:40*pm, Sandrien13 wrote: what do you mean when you say "it does not stop the device"? do you see the dialog box that says that the device can be safely removed now? or is it that the LED on the device doesn't go off? I don't see the dialog box and the LED doesn't go off. But in safe mode the dialog box does appear! Any idea what this is? |