Comments on: How to safely remove your USB drive when Safely Remove Hardware icon disappears from the system tray

By: How to carefully remove a USB device | IT Tropolis

How to carefully remove a USB device | IT Tropolis — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 02:26:22 +0000

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By: Arpit Mohta

Arpit Mohta — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:59:40 +0000

I knew the second one but rest two was not in my knowledge.Thanx for adding them to my knowledge.

By: IceArdor

IceArdor — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 01:41:03 +0000

You can also go into Disk Management and change the status of a drive to Offline, then remove it that way. You will have to mark the drive as Online once you plug it back in again.

By: eches

eches — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:29:38 +0000

Works like a charm most of the time. Thanks!

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Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:29:09 +0000

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By: Richard Stone

Richard Stone — Sun, 29 May 2011 19:37:37 +0000

I was in the same boat as most of you, unable to safely remove a usb mass storage device. I believe that I tried most of the suggestions above. What I wound up doing is left my computer on over night. In the morning I clicked on Safely Remove Hardware device and it said it was safe to remove the device. Hope this helps

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:11:25 +0000

Brilliant! Saved my day.

By: mashhood

mashhood — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 12:32:00 +0000

indeed this will help me… as it happens a alot of tym..

By: Abet

Abet — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:24:54 +0000

By default, usb storage devices are optimized for quick removal. So, unless you changed it yourself, don’t let your self get stuck on that problem. As long as you are 100% sure there are no longer open files in your usb drive, just simply pull it off. But if you really to use the OS’s tool of removing safely your usb drive but later tells you that “the device can’t be stopped now, try again later”, and yet you are really 100% sure there are no longer open files in your usb drive, you may use a program called ffunlock. It’s freeware and easy to use. Try googling it. Although the program doesn’t work well (I mean is not able to do its job), I have used it many times and had helped me many times.

By: Ashfame

Ashfame — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 20:56:27 +0000

you can try to recover them – http://blog.ashfame.com/2010/04/free-data-recovery-software-tools/

By: stella

stella — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:55:04 +0000

hello i have vvv bad situation i delete my mobile’s folder that memory card and phone but i think it was bad for me so plzzzzz tell me that how i get back my folders of memory card and phone plzzzzz tell the solution as soooon as possible and plzzzzzz dnt say that it was remove permanently plzzzzzz tell me ansssss fasttttt

By: myshkin

myshkin — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 02:28:01 +0000

I haven’t had the Safely Remove icon disappear, but I have had intermittent problems using it. Every so often it gives me a notice that “the device can’t be stopped now, try again later” or words to that effect, even though all programs that might be using or somehow interacting with the device (a flash drive) have been closed. I gather some programs continue to do things (wind down?) for a while after they’re closed but I continue to get the same notice for at least several minutes after closing anything that seems relevant.

This occurs with several different flash drives of different brands, and for any given drive it happens occasionally but usually not. Is there some way to figure out what’s going on here? Thanks for anything you can tell me.

I’m using Windows XP, if that matters.

By: JUSTcircle

JUSTcircle — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 21:14:46 +0000

Hi, thanks for the tips.. but i’ve tried to use method #1 and #3..but it’s still shows “Te device ‘Generic volume’ cannot be stopped because a program is still accessing it.”.

And when I tried to use method #2, after i try to ‘disable’ it.. it ask for restart windows. Is that I must to restart my laptop? then enable it after i remove my USB drive?

I hope u can answer me.. I really need help. Thank in advance.

By: AB

AB — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:36:47 +0000

Hi,
Really Nice…!!!

By: Ashfame

Ashfame — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:24:54 +0000

No idea about that but I think you should be easily able to find that with a google search.