I try to stand it down, using a "USB Safely Remove" utility but in the
case of this particular drive, I get the message: "Cannot be stopped
for now, close all applications that have open files on the disk...l"
Then I'm given a long lists of 'System' and 'svchost' files that need
to be closed before the disk can be stopped.
I have several other smaller external drives which seem to only be
active when I'm uploading or downloading files to them, which seems
like a preferable option to me.
Any suggestions on this?
On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 10:59:22 +0000, Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me>
wrote:
On 11/15/24 09:51, Mike Halmarack wrote:
I try to stand it down, using a "USB Safely Remove" utility but in the
case of this particular drive, I get the message: "Cannot be stopped
for now, close all applications that have open files on the disk...l"
Then I'm given a long lists of 'System' and 'svchost' files that need
to be closed before the disk can be stopped.
I have several other smaller external drives which seem to only be
active when I'm uploading or downloading files to them, which seems
like a preferable option to me.
Any suggestions on this?
For a sensible answer I think you would need to list what the files
were. In MS window you can see this with Sysinternals ProcessExplorer or >>maybe FileMon. Sorry, I can't remember exactly which tool in the >>Sysinternals suite of programs.
In general, I have not found it difficult to shutdown USB attached HDD,
but I have not been able to stop them from repeatedly spontaneously >>spinning up whilst attached. My use case was I wanted them permanently >>attached, but only waking up for daily/weekly backups and or very >>occasional on demand retrieval of archive files. I didn't figure it out, >>now I'm waiting for a spare WakeOnLan capable PC to become available.
I'll turn the whole PC off when not using the disks. I expect this is a >>common use case, now we have cheap SSD storage, HDD are only used for >>backups.
There are very long lists of System and svchost.exe files said to be
stopping me from removing this drive. I can and have used the force
option but I'm not sure how much potential damage might be caused by
that. Do the type of system files I mentioned directly affect my
personal workfiles as they move to and from the drive?
On Sat, 16 Nov 2024 10:59:22 +0000, Pancho <Pancho.Jones@proton.me>
wrote:
On 11/15/24 09:51, Mike Halmarack wrote:
I try to stand it down, using a "USB Safely Remove" utility but in the
case of this particular drive, I get the message: "Cannot be stopped
for now, close all applications that have open files on the disk...l"
Then I'm given a long lists of 'System' and 'svchost' files that need
to be closed before the disk can be stopped.
I have several other smaller external drives which seem to only be
active when I'm uploading or downloading files to them, which seems
like a preferable option to me.
Any suggestions on this?
For a sensible answer I think you would need to list what the files
were. In MS window you can see this with Sysinternals ProcessExplorer or
maybe FileMon. Sorry, I can't remember exactly which tool in the
Sysinternals suite of programs.
In general, I have not found it difficult to shutdown USB attached HDD,
but I have not been able to stop them from repeatedly spontaneously
spinning up whilst attached. My use case was I wanted them permanently
attached, but only waking up for daily/weekly backups and or very
occasional on demand retrieval of archive files. I didn't figure it out,
now I'm waiting for a spare WakeOnLan capable PC to become available.
I'll turn the whole PC off when not using the disks. I expect this is a
common use case, now we have cheap SSD storage, HDD are only used for
backups.
There are very long lists of System and svchost.exe files said to be
stopping me from removing this drive. I can and have used the force
option but I'm not sure how much potential damage might be caused by
that. Do the type of system files I mentioned directly affect my
personal workfiles as they move to and from the drive?
I try to stand it down, using a "USB Safely Remove" utility but in the
case of this particular drive, I get the message: "Cannot be stopped
for now, close all applications that have open files on the disk...l"
Then I'm given a long lists of 'System' and 'svchost' files that need
to be closed before the disk can be stopped.
I have several other smaller external drives which seem to only be
active when I'm uploading or downloading files to them, which seems
like a preferable option to me.
Any suggestions on this?
On 18 Nov 2024 15:26:48 GMT, Jaimie Vandenbergh
<jaimie@usually.sessile.org> wrote:
On 15 Nov 2024 at 09:51:47 GMT, "Mike Halmarack"
<mikehalmarack@gmail.com> wrote:
I try to stand it down, using a "USB Safely Remove" utility but in the
case of this particular drive, I get the message: "Cannot be stopped
for now, close all applications that have open files on the disk...l"
Then I'm given a long lists of 'System' and 'svchost' files that need
to be closed before the disk can be stopped.
I have several other smaller external drives which seem to only be
active when I'm uploading or downloading files to them, which seems
like a preferable option to me.
Any suggestions on this?
svchost is just a wrapper for system services of all sorts. It's
incredibly unuseful to know what's actually occurring. 'system' isn't
really any better.
But odds are high it's (a) an antivirus scan and/or (b) Windows search
indexing.
You can see the scan progress by looking in the AV's interface. You can
exclude locations from Windows search indexing (don't ask me how, I've
disabled it entirely as No Use At All).
Either way, they'll just be reading files, not writing anything so you
can still safely eject the bloody thing. As long as the drive is NTFS
not some form of FAT format, I'd just yank it to be honest.
Cheers - Jaimie
It takes a man of great knowlwge to come up with such a simple and
effective solution.
Just yank it I will. Thanks
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