You’ve never, ever plugged in a thumbdrive and then used the “safely remove hardware” tray to try and eject… only to receive an error that says “unable to remove, in use” or similar?
I guess i’ve never seen it happen when I was using a thumb drive to image a machine well over a decade ago.
There are a few people on the internet who seem to have reported this though:
can confirm i see this every time on multiple win7 and 10 machines, making the disk offline and online again on diskmgmt.msc always works. right click and eject in explorer also usually works but not always.
You’ve never, ever plugged in a thumbdrive and then used the “safely remove hardware” tray to try and eject… only to receive an error that says “unable to remove, in use” or similar?
The unmounting needing a reboot seems very much a you problem.
I have managed over 1000 systems since XP days and never came across it.
You’ve never, ever plugged in a thumbdrive and then used the “safely remove hardware” tray to try and eject… only to receive an error that says “unable to remove, in use” or similar?
I guess i’ve never seen it happen when I was using a thumb drive to image a machine well over a decade ago.
There are a few people on the internet who seem to have reported this though:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/12t8pwo/i_cant_eject_any_storage_even_if_nothing_obvious/
https://www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHelp/comments/pnbfcf/this_device_is_currently_in_use_when_trying_to/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4212072/cant-eject-external-hard-drive
https://www.reddit.com/r/LenovoLegion/comments/uv5uag/cant_safely_eject_usb_drives_on_legion_716achg6/
There are thousands of results of this. I have encountered this dozens of times personally across dozens of different systems.
can confirm i see this every time on multiple win7 and 10 machines, making the disk offline and online again on diskmgmt.msc always works. right click and eject in explorer also usually works but not always.
no, not even with those fake size ones.