How to safely eject external

[bjm_]

Hello
I've been having trouble getting Haselo to release.
Any suggestions. 
   

[bjm_]

Go into Task Manager and end task on Hasleo.
It really doesn't matter though since windows doesn't use delayed write on external drives.
You can safely just unplug it.

Yeah, I've tried Task Manager -> End task
Sorry, I should have mentioned.

[admin]

Go into Task Manager and end task on Hasleo.
It really doesn't matter though since windows doesn't use delayed write on external drives.
You can safely just unplug it.

Yeah, I've tried Task Manager -> End task
Sorry, I should have mentioned.

Regarding this issue, we recommend opening Resource Monitor to check if any programs are currently accessing the USB drive. For specific steps, please refer to the images I have attached.

[bjm_]

Regarding this issue, we recommend opening Resource Monitor to check if any programs are currently accessing the USB drive. 

Okay...I watched Resource Monitor from start to completion.  I find no Disk Activity on D:\ and yet the device is currently in use.

[bjm_]

Go into Task Manager and end task on Hasleo.
It really doesn't matter though since windows doesn't use delayed write on external drives.
You can safely just unplug it.

Oh okay...interesting.  I was not aware "Quick removal (default for external drives)". 
I'd still like to understand why device is (remains) currently in use. 

• Quick removal (default for external drives): This setting disables most write caching to the drive. Data is written directly to the external drive as soon as possible. This ensures data integrity and allows the device to be unplugged safely without needing the "Safely Remove Hardware" notification, provided no file transfers are actively in progress.

[bjm_]

Also check your antivirus to see if it's monitoring the drive.

How?

[bjm_]

Go into Task Manager and end task on Hasleo.
It really doesn't matter though since windows doesn't use delayed write on external drives.
You can safely just unplug it.

Oh okay...interesting.  I was not aware "Quick removal (default for external drives)". 
I'd still like to understand why the device remains currently in use. 

• Quick removal (default for external drives): This setting disables most write caching to the drive. Data is written directly to the external drive as soon as possible. This ensures data integrity and allows the device to be unplugged safely without needing the "Safely Remove Hardware" notification, provided no file transfers are actively in progress.

[admin]

Regarding this issue, we recommend opening Resource Monitor to check if any programs are currently accessing the USB drive. 

Okay...I watched Resource Monitor from start to completion.  I find no Disk Activity on D:\ and yet the device is currently in use.

That is indeed strange. Aside from user processes, are there any system processes (such as svchost.exe) accessing the drive? Is this USB drive the source or the target drive?

Maybe you can try taking the drive offline in Windows Disk Management and then ejecting it.

[CDC9762]

USB removal, IMO, has always been a bit of an issue but seemed much better in W0 and 11.
My method has been to check Device Manager- Disk Drives - Properties - Policies to see how Windows sees the drive. For USB drives in W11 it has always shown as something like set "For Quick Removal (Default)" so there is no caching involved and you can unplug it as desired. I certainly do not check this every time I use the drive. I have never had to my knowledge any problems with this.
If you try to figure this out by Googling, you will get lots of contradictory opinions.

[Dude Guyman]

USB removal, IMO, has always been a bit of an issue but seemed much better in W0 and 11.

I get this "Device in use" junk on Windows 10 all the time, seemingly at random. Without Hasleo installed. Often without ever actively doing anything that would access the disk (opening, moving files, or making a WinRAR archive on it, etc.) Sometimes just opening the USB drive in Explorer, hitting "F5", then closing it fixes it. Sometimes nothing seems to, and it requires a reboot. It's just one of those obnoxious "Windows things" I've learned to live with.

I do not set it to do "Better performance = enable disk caching" but it made no difference when I did, still had "device in use". I find all that does is tell Windows to "lie" to you about if it is finished moving files or not. It will say it's finished with a large file move long before it really is.