I have Win XP SP 2 at home. After using and shutting down all portable applications, when I select remove hardware option and click the pen drive and ask for it to be stopped, it is unable to do so. This did not happen earlier when I did not have portable apps in my pen drive. I have to shut down the PC to remove the pen drive, for fear of corrupting the files. Kindly tell me what can be done about this.
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Are you running a firewall like Zone Alarm? There have been cases where ZA was accessing a USB drive preventing it from closing.
Another suspect would be an antivirus or antispyware app acessing the drive.
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Get a program like Unlocker (Google it). It looks at what is accessing certain files, and then you can select to Unlock the file or whatever.
long enough before closing?
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Are you also exiting the Portable Apps Menu? I often forget to do that...
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There is a trojan that spread trough PDrives and use to prevent to eject the Drive... in fact, I use that as an indicator that I have the trojan and remove it (show hiden files and delete all of them... also change back my autorun.inf)
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If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
Do you have a disk defragmenter running? I use Diskeeper and I have auto-defragment enabled. To have this enabled, Diskeeper runs a service in the background and locks any drives from being removed. I found that I had to stop the Diskeeper service before it would allow me to remove my USB drive.
I had a similar problem with one of my drives.
What I wound up trying was uninstalling the driver for the Pen drive, rebooting my computer and then reinserting it. Windows xp detected it as a new drive and reinstalled the driver again. Ever since then I've never had that problem.
It may not work for you, but it's worth a shot.
It's not 100% portable, but Process Explorer is an excellent tool for finding the handles that are locking your drive.
There is a trojan that spread trough PDrives and use to prevent to eject the Drive... in fact, I use that as an indicator that I have the trojan and remove it (show hiden files and delete all of them... also change back my autorun.inf)
That's a pretty poor indicator of a Trojan. A lot of legitimate programs will not close handles when they should, which causes an inability to eject.
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At home everything works fine. But at work, I try to eject, it does not let me, I wait 5 seconds, try it again and it ejects fine. I'm not sure what's going on. I have Unlocker installed but it says there's nothing locking up my drive.
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