re: external hard drive in use Monday, November 2, 2009 at 10:04 am Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Adam Bradley (7827 messages posted) Could be your antivirus's real time scanner or any running media players as well. On Monday, November 2, 2009 at 9:06 am, Jack Shaw wrote: >Yes, it is connected all the time. I can remove it when I shut down the desktop. >But I really would prefer not to have to do that each time I want to disconnect it. >I prefer to click on the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon and remove it that way. But >even when nothing is being accessed on it and it is not humming, I get the "in use" >message. Written in response to: re: external hard drive in use (Jack Shaw: Monday, November 2, 2009 at 9:06 am) Responses to this message: re: external hard drive in use (Jack Shaw: Monday, November 2, 2009 at 10:22 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