I've always just pulled them out as well, but a co-worker of mine insists if you do this on an XP machine, every now and then something will happen so you can no longer access that drive on that particular PC. I've never seen it happen though.
_____ From: Steve Moffat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of NTSysAdmin Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:53 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Can't Safely Unplug USB drive You can't just pull it out? It's stuck?..:) I don't think I have ever used the eject usb thing ever.......nor have I lost any data. S From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 9:47 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Can't Safely Unplug USB drive Yeah I tried this too. The drive letter my thumb drive is on doesn't show up in the list here either. -- Mike Gill From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 7:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Can't Safely Unplug USB drive Try handle.exe Cheers Ken From: Mike Gill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 13 June 2008 12:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Can't Safely Unplug USB drive Is there an app that will show me programs or processes that are accessing a drive letter? This is one of my biggest frustrations with Vista. Before it was almost impossible for me to be able to eject a USB hard drive, now it is impossible any time. But now, I can't even "safely remove" my thumb drive. I've exited out of all programs, down to the AV and sidebar and even stopped the index service. Nothing suspicious is seen in the task manager. I'm just at a loss. I've tried process monitor and can't get it to show me anything. -- Mike Gill ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
