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USB Drive - Ties Up Vista - Can't Safely Remove
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My WD2500 250G USB drive does things with Vista that annoy me: -the drive starts spooling up/spinning even if I have not made any read/write requests from it -while it's spooling up, is slows down Vista severely, causing me to want to Eject it -while the drive is spinning, I can't safely eject, error, drive is in use by another program, even when I have no programs running, or files open. Can you help? -- Thanks |
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USB Drive - Ties Up Vista - Can't Safely Remove
In Windows Explorer, right click on the drive and select Properties. On the
firsr tab, General, right at the bottom, ensure Index this drive for faster searching is NOT checked. If it is, each time you connect it, Windows will check to see which files have changed, been added, deleted etc. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/windows "garywi" wrote in message ... Hi, My WD2500 250G USB drive does things with Vista that annoy me: -the drive starts spooling up/spinning even if I have not made any read/write requests from it -while it's spooling up, is slows down Vista severely, causing me to want to Eject it -while the drive is spinning, I can't safely eject, error, drive is in use by another program, even when I have no programs running, or files open. Can you help? -- Thanks |
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USB Drive - Ties Up Vista - Can't Safely Remove
Hi, Thanks. On the general tab for this drive, there is no check box for
indexing. I checked all the tabs, there is no box. The only button on the general tab is for degragmenting. ? -- Thanks "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: In Windows Explorer, right click on the drive and select Properties. On the firsr tab, General, right at the bottom, ensure Index this drive for faster searching is NOT checked. If it is, each time you connect it, Windows will check to see which files have changed, been added, deleted etc. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/windows "garywi" wrote in message ... Hi, My WD2500 250G USB drive does things with Vista that annoy me: -the drive starts spooling up/spinning even if I have not made any read/write requests from it -while it's spooling up, is slows down Vista severely, causing me to want to Eject it -while the drive is spinning, I can't safely eject, error, drive is in use by another program, even when I have no programs running, or files open. Can you help? -- Thanks |
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USB Drive - Ties Up Vista - Can't Safely Remove
"garywi" wrote in message
... Hi, Thanks. On the general tab for this drive, there is no check box for indexing. I checked all the tabs, there is no box. The only button on the general tab is for degragmenting. ? -- Thanks "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: In Windows Explorer, right click on the drive and select Properties. On the firsr tab, General, right at the bottom, ensure Index this drive for faster searching is NOT checked. If it is, each time you connect it, Windows will check to see which files have changed, been added, deleted etc. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/windows "garywi" wrote in message ... Hi, My WD2500 250G USB drive does things with Vista that annoy me: -the drive starts spooling up/spinning even if I have not made any read/write requests from it -while it's spooling up, is slows down Vista severely, causing me to want to Eject it -while the drive is spinning, I can't safely eject, error, drive is in use by another program, even when I have no programs running, or files open. Can you help? -- Thanks Run task manager, goto performance, click resource monitor, in there choose disk, and sort by highest-lowest read/write and find out which application is doing all the reading and/or writing to ur usb drive. Once you know the application, u can perhaps disable it, or adjust its settings depending on what it is. -- Q9450 OC'd 3.8GHz 4x 2GB 1066Mhz RAM 1:1 9800GX2 1GB OC'd 680core/1060mem 1TB SpinPoint HDD 350GB secondary HDD 2x 22" HP w2207h TrackIR G15 keyboard Logitech G9 Laser Mouse MS ForceFeedBack 2 Joystick |
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USB Drive - Ties Up Vista - Can't Safely Remove
I went into Performance Manager. I see C:\ activity but nothing for my USB
drive while it sit's and runs. -- Thanks "Rob" wrote: "garywi" wrote in message ... Hi, Thanks. On the general tab for this drive, there is no check box for indexing. I checked all the tabs, there is no box. The only button on the general tab is for degragmenting. ? -- Thanks "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: In Windows Explorer, right click on the drive and select Properties. On the firsr tab, General, right at the bottom, ensure Index this drive for faster searching is NOT checked. If it is, each time you connect it, Windows will check to see which files have changed, been added, deleted etc. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/windows "garywi" wrote in message ... Hi, My WD2500 250G USB drive does things with Vista that annoy me: -the drive starts spooling up/spinning even if I have not made any read/write requests from it -while it's spooling up, is slows down Vista severely, causing me to want to Eject it -while the drive is spinning, I can't safely eject, error, drive is in use by another program, even when I have no programs running, or files open. Can you help? -- Thanks Run task manager, goto performance, click resource monitor, in there choose disk, and sort by highest-lowest read/write and find out which application is doing all the reading and/or writing to ur usb drive. Once you know the application, u can perhaps disable it, or adjust its settings depending on what it is. -- Q9450 OC'd 3.8GHz 4x 2GB 1066Mhz RAM 1:1 9800GX2 1GB OC'd 680core/1060mem 1TB SpinPoint HDD 350GB secondary HDD 2x 22" HP w2207h TrackIR G15 keyboard Logitech G9 Laser Mouse MS ForceFeedBack 2 Joystick |
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USB Drive - Ties Up Vista - Can't Safely Remove
Try going to the 'Device Manager' (right click on my computer - properties
- Device manager) and underr disk drives find your Western Digital drive (WD 2500... External USB Device). Open up the properties (double click or right click) and goto the 'policies' tab. Select the top one 'optimise for quick removal' and you should be able to just disconnect the drive without safe removal (as it says in the description). Hope this helps "garywi" wrote: I went into Performance Manager. I see C:\ activity but nothing for my USB drive while it sit's and runs. -- Thanks "Rob" wrote: "garywi" wrote in message ... Hi, Thanks. On the general tab for this drive, there is no check box for indexing. I checked all the tabs, there is no box. The only button on the general tab is for degragmenting. ? -- Thanks "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: In Windows Explorer, right click on the drive and select Properties. On the firsr tab, General, right at the bottom, ensure Index this drive for faster searching is NOT checked. If it is, each time you connect it, Windows will check to see which files have changed, been added, deleted etc. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/windows "garywi" wrote in message ... Hi, My WD2500 250G USB drive does things with Vista that annoy me: -the drive starts spooling up/spinning even if I have not made any read/write requests from it -while it's spooling up, is slows down Vista severely, causing me to want to Eject it -while the drive is spinning, I can't safely eject, error, drive is in use by another program, even when I have no programs running, or files open. Can you help? -- Thanks Run task manager, goto performance, click resource monitor, in there choose disk, and sort by highest-lowest read/write and find out which application is doing all the reading and/or writing to ur usb drive. Once you know the application, u can perhaps disable it, or adjust its settings depending on what it is. -- Q9450 OC'd 3.8GHz 4x 2GB 1066Mhz RAM 1:1 9800GX2 1GB OC'd 680core/1060mem 1TB SpinPoint HDD 350GB secondary HDD 2x 22" HP w2207h TrackIR G15 keyboard Logitech G9 Laser Mouse MS ForceFeedBack 2 Joystick |
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USB Drive - Ties Up Vista - Can't Safely Remove
Thanks Everyone. I made the change to 'optimise for quick removal' . Can I
really unplug the USB cable while the drive is spinning? Also, as a test, I still go in to try to safely remove hardware, or Eject the drive and Vista still says the drive is in use, when the drive is spinning or when not spinning. Its always in use according to vista. -- Thanks "Andrew Wong" wrote: Try going to the 'Device Manager' (right click on my computer - properties - Device manager) and underr disk drives find your Western Digital drive (WD 2500... External USB Device). Open up the properties (double click or right click) and goto the 'policies' tab. Select the top one 'optimise for quick removal' and you should be able to just disconnect the drive without safe removal (as it says in the description). Hope this helps "garywi" wrote: I went into Performance Manager. I see C:\ activity but nothing for my USB drive while it sit's and runs. -- Thanks "Rob" wrote: "garywi" wrote in message ... Hi, Thanks. On the general tab for this drive, there is no check box for indexing. I checked all the tabs, there is no box. The only button on the general tab is for degragmenting. ? -- Thanks "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: In Windows Explorer, right click on the drive and select Properties. On the firsr tab, General, right at the bottom, ensure Index this drive for faster searching is NOT checked. If it is, each time you connect it, Windows will check to see which files have changed, been added, deleted etc. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/windows "garywi" wrote in message ... Hi, My WD2500 250G USB drive does things with Vista that annoy me: -the drive starts spooling up/spinning even if I have not made any read/write requests from it -while it's spooling up, is slows down Vista severely, causing me to want to Eject it -while the drive is spinning, I can't safely eject, error, drive is in use by another program, even when I have no programs running, or files open. Can you help? -- Thanks Run task manager, goto performance, click resource monitor, in there choose disk, and sort by highest-lowest read/write and find out which application is doing all the reading and/or writing to ur usb drive. Once you know the application, u can perhaps disable it, or adjust its settings depending on what it is. -- Q9450 OC'd 3.8GHz 4x 2GB 1066Mhz RAM 1:1 9800GX2 1GB OC'd 680core/1060mem 1TB SpinPoint HDD 350GB secondary HDD 2x 22" HP w2207h TrackIR G15 keyboard Logitech G9 Laser Mouse MS ForceFeedBack 2 Joystick |
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USB Drive - Ties Up Vista - Can't Safely Remove
"garywi" wrote in message news Thanks Everyone. I made the change to 'optimise for quick removal' . Can I really unplug the USB cable while the drive is spinning? Also, as a test, I still go in to try to safely remove hardware, or Eject the drive and Vista still says the drive is in use, when the drive is spinning or when not spinning. Its always in use according to vista. -- Thanks "Andrew Wong" wrote: Try going to the 'Device Manager' (right click on my computer - properties - Device manager) and underr disk drives find your Western Digital drive (WD 2500... External USB Device). Open up the properties (double click or right click) and goto the 'policies' tab. Select the top one 'optimise for quick removal' and you should be able to just disconnect the drive without safe removal (as it says in the description). Hope this helps "garywi" wrote: I went into Performance Manager. I see C:\ activity but nothing for my USB drive while it sit's and runs. -- Thanks "Rob" wrote: "garywi" wrote in message ... Hi, Thanks. On the general tab for this drive, there is no check box for indexing. I checked all the tabs, there is no box. The only button on the general tab is for degragmenting. ? -- Thanks "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: In Windows Explorer, right click on the drive and select Properties. On the firsr tab, General, right at the bottom, ensure Index this drive for faster searching is NOT checked. If it is, each time you connect it, Windows will check to see which files have changed, been added, deleted etc. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/windows "garywi" wrote in message ... Hi, My WD2500 250G USB drive does things with Vista that annoy me: -the drive starts spooling up/spinning even if I have not made any read/write requests from it -while it's spooling up, is slows down Vista severely, causing me to want to Eject it -while the drive is spinning, I can't safely eject, error, drive is in use by another program, even when I have no programs running, or files open. Can you help? -- Thanks Run task manager, goto performance, click resource monitor, in there choose disk, and sort by highest-lowest read/write and find out which application is doing all the reading and/or writing to ur usb drive. Once you know the application, u can perhaps disable it, or adjust its settings depending on what it is. -- Q9450 OC'd 3.8GHz 4x 2GB 1066Mhz RAM 1:1 9800GX2 1GB OC'd 680core/1060mem 1TB SpinPoint HDD 350GB secondary HDD 2x 22" HP w2207h TrackIR G15 keyboard Logitech G9 Laser Mouse MS ForceFeedBack 2 Joystick Yes you can. USB drives can be hot swapped, but if Vista is reporting it in use, you really do need to run down what is using it before unplugging. Otherwise you could damage the drive, at least what is written on it. You could go to Device Manager, and adjust it's properties to be "quickly removable." But if a program is holding it open you need to stop that. I would bet it's Windows Media Player. It seems to want to grab everything you plug into the machine. Make sure it is shut down in Process Manager. Good luck. |
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USB Drive - Ties Up Vista - Can't Safely Remove
Hi, I went into Services and disabled every service with Windows Media Player
in the description. Vista will still not let me eject the drive. What else has my USB drive hostage? ? -- Thanks "Wandering" wrote: "garywi" wrote in message news Thanks Everyone. I made the change to 'optimise for quick removal' . Can I really unplug the USB cable while the drive is spinning? Also, as a test, I still go in to try to safely remove hardware, or Eject the drive and Vista still says the drive is in use, when the drive is spinning or when not spinning. Its always in use according to vista. -- Thanks "Andrew Wong" wrote: Try going to the 'Device Manager' (right click on my computer - properties - Device manager) and underr disk drives find your Western Digital drive (WD 2500... External USB Device). Open up the properties (double click or right click) and goto the 'policies' tab. Select the top one 'optimise for quick removal' and you should be able to just disconnect the drive without safe removal (as it says in the description). Hope this helps "garywi" wrote: I went into Performance Manager. I see C:\ activity but nothing for my USB drive while it sit's and runs. -- Thanks "Rob" wrote: "garywi" wrote in message ... Hi, Thanks. On the general tab for this drive, there is no check box for indexing. I checked all the tabs, there is no box. The only button on the general tab is for degragmenting. ? -- Thanks "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: In Windows Explorer, right click on the drive and select Properties. On the firsr tab, General, right at the bottom, ensure Index this drive for faster searching is NOT checked. If it is, each time you connect it, Windows will check to see which files have changed, been added, deleted etc. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/windows "garywi" wrote in message ... Hi, My WD2500 250G USB drive does things with Vista that annoy me: -the drive starts spooling up/spinning even if I have not made any read/write requests from it -while it's spooling up, is slows down Vista severely, causing me to want to Eject it -while the drive is spinning, I can't safely eject, error, drive is in use by another program, even when I have no programs running, or files open. Can you help? -- Thanks Run task manager, goto performance, click resource monitor, in there choose disk, and sort by highest-lowest read/write and find out which application is doing all the reading and/or writing to ur usb drive. Once you know the application, u can perhaps disable it, or adjust its settings depending on what it is. -- Q9450 OC'd 3.8GHz 4x 2GB 1066Mhz RAM 1:1 9800GX2 1GB OC'd 680core/1060mem 1TB SpinPoint HDD 350GB secondary HDD 2x 22" HP w2207h TrackIR G15 keyboard Logitech G9 Laser Mouse MS ForceFeedBack 2 Joystick Yes you can. USB drives can be hot swapped, but if Vista is reporting it in use, you really do need to run down what is using it before unplugging. Otherwise you could damage the drive, at least what is written on it. You could go to Device Manager, and adjust it's properties to be "quickly removable." But if a program is holding it open you need to stop that. I would bet it's Windows Media Player. It seems to want to grab everything you plug into the machine. Make sure it is shut down in Process Manager. Good luck. |
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USB Drive - Ties Up Vista - Can't Safely Remove
"Wandering" wrote in message ... "garywi" wrote in message news Thanks Everyone. I made the change to 'optimise for quick removal' . Can I really unplug the USB cable while the drive is spinning? Also, as a test, I still go in to try to safely remove hardware, or Eject the drive and Vista still says the drive is in use, when the drive is spinning or when not spinning. Its always in use according to vista. -- Thanks "Andrew Wong" wrote: Try going to the 'Device Manager' (right click on my computer - properties - Device manager) and underr disk drives find your Western Digital drive (WD 2500... External USB Device). Open up the properties (double click or right click) and goto the 'policies' tab. Select the top one 'optimise for quick removal' and you should be able to just disconnect the drive without safe removal (as it says in the description). Hope this helps "garywi" wrote: I went into Performance Manager. I see C:\ activity but nothing for my USB drive while it sit's and runs. -- Thanks "Rob" wrote: "garywi" wrote in message ... Hi, Thanks. On the general tab for this drive, there is no check box for indexing. I checked all the tabs, there is no box. The only button on the general tab is for degragmenting. ? -- Thanks "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: In Windows Explorer, right click on the drive and select Properties. On the firsr tab, General, right at the bottom, ensure Index this drive for faster searching is NOT checked. If it is, each time you connect it, Windows will check to see which files have changed, been added, deleted etc. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging www.coribright.com/windows "garywi" wrote in message ... Hi, My WD2500 250G USB drive does things with Vista that annoy me: -the drive starts spooling up/spinning even if I have not made any read/write requests from it -while it's spooling up, is slows down Vista severely, causing me to want to Eject it -while the drive is spinning, I can't safely eject, error, drive is in use by another program, even when I have no programs running, or files open. Can you help? -- Thanks Run task manager, goto performance, click resource monitor, in there choose disk, and sort by highest-lowest read/write and find out which application is doing all the reading and/or writing to ur usb drive. Once you know the application, u can perhaps disable it, or adjust its settings depending on what it is. -- Q9450 OC'd 3.8GHz 4x 2GB 1066Mhz RAM 1:1 9800GX2 1GB OC'd 680core/1060mem 1TB SpinPoint HDD 350GB secondary HDD 2x 22" HP w2207h TrackIR G15 keyboard Logitech G9 Laser Mouse MS ForceFeedBack 2 Joystick Yes you can. USB drives can be hot swapped, but if Vista is reporting it in use, you really do need to run down what is using it before unplugging. Otherwise you could damage the drive, at least what is written on it. You could go to Device Manager, and adjust it's properties to be "quickly removable." But if a program is holding it open you need to stop that. I would bet it's Windows Media Player. It seems to want to grab everything you plug into the machine. Make sure it is shut down in Process Manager. Good luck. Understand that I am only guessing based on some of my own experiences. Are you running any disk burning software like Nero and some others, or any other media player? Often they leave part of them behind for a quick start, Some seem to want to grab any removable device to sync. Are you using Sync Manager? Is there U3 Software on the drive, and does it install a second U3 Device? You can try shutting down one thing at a time till either Windows breaks or your can remove the drive. Also, remember to use the show all processes for all users button, or you aren't seeing the half of what is running on your machine. Good luck. |