external hard drive in use Friday, October 30, 2009 at 7:11 am Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Jack Shaw (112 messages posted) I have a powered external hard drive for back up purposes. From time to time it starts up on its own for no apparent reason. I just tried to remove it and got the message that it was in use. I was not accessing anything there, there are no programs on it and it is not shared. I can hear it humming. How do I stop whatever use there is? Responses to this message: re: external hard drive in use (MartinM: Friday, October 30, 2009 at 10:03 am) All messages in this thread [show all] external hard drive in use (Jack Shaw: Fri, Oct 30, 2009, 7:11 am) re: external hard drive in use (MartinM: Fri, Oct 30, 2009, 10:03 am) re: external hard drive in use (Jack Shaw: Mon, Nov 2, 2009, 9:06 am) re: external hard drive in use (MartinM: Mon, Nov 2, 2009, 9:36 am) re: external hard drive in use (Jack Shaw: Mon, Nov 2, 2009, 10:19 am) re: external hard drive in use (MartinM: Mon, Nov 2, 2009, 10:31 am) re: external hard drive in use (Adam Bradley: Mon, Nov 2, 2009, 10:04 am) re: external hard drive in use (Jack Shaw: Mon, Nov 2, 2009, 10:22 am) re: external hard drive in use (Adam Bradley: Mon, Nov 2, 2009, 10:51 am) re: external hard drive in use (Jack Shaw: Mon, Nov 2, 2009, 12:07 pm) re: external hard drive in use (MartinM: Mon, Nov 2, 2009, 1:26 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum