Unable to Eject External hard drive safetly

[scythe944]

I guess that works if you have the ability to shut it down.

Servers are another beast though... 

[nmb]

Guys,

I don't think unlocker will show what is locking the usb drive. It only catches the errors when files are undeletable. 

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[pk]

Guys, let's try Process Explorer, it will show you the opened handles on that USB volume...

Thanks

[bikemanAMD]

Process Explorer seemed to have to work this time when i tried it, so i guess will keep copy of that on a flash drive and if i need to use it on other PC's i have it.

External is used for weekly backups, and Monthly Vista Backups from 2 PC's, and misc download storage here

wonder if cause of mine has network shares for the Vista backups from 2 other Vista Pc's in the household, thats why on mine maybe it said cannot eject

[YoKenny]

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[nmb]

Here you go pk. See pic. Who's blocking it from ejecting?

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[Lisandro]

avast eh eh...

[nmb]

You are right Tech. What next?

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[Lisandro]

Indeed I don't see a solution... I think it's not the self-defense who will solve this.
Seems to be related to the permanent cache...
But pk is the one to solve this.

[nmb]

Or is it related to sandbox storage?

pk, where are you??

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[Lisandro]

Oh, yeah, the sandbox...

[pk]

nmb: thanks for posting that screenshot. I think what might have gone wrong, but I'd like to be sure: when you'll get the same results in Process Explorer (i.e. System process is holding "aswSnx private storage" handles), could you please execute http://public.avast.com/~kurtin/osrbang.exe, press that harmless button , compress & upload memory.dmp to our ftp? Thanks a lot!

[nmb]

Hello pk,

Ya will do that. Gimme sometime.

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[nmb]

It failed to start and load the driver - in both elevated user rights and low rights.
It could not bang!

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[pk]

hmmm, interesting... could you please generate kernel dump manually? [rightmost Ctrl+press Scroll Lock twice], see: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff545499.aspx

Thanks.