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USB Drive will not eject.
i have a client that their USB drives will not eject from the server, it reports that the drives are busy and cannot be ejected. Even after a fresh reboot. I can't tell what is using the drives.
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Will I have to go though this all the time when I want to swap them?
What are they being used for?
Philip
Philip
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Nightly Backups, swapped out weekly.
What backup product? If not Windows Server Backup then check into the product's KBs to see if there are any issues with USB.
Philip
Philip
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It's Macrium Reflect. I run this software on many servers with USB drives and this does not happen, in fact it was not happening on this server until recently.
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OK, great. I uninstalled and reinstalled the drive. No change there. I downloaded process explorer and forgive me, its been a while since I used it, how do I tell what is using the USB drive?
CTRL+F (or Find -> Handle or DLL), then enter the drive letter of the usb drive and search, e.g. F:\
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Very good, it was a Quckbooks Monitoring System. Thanks!!
You can then eject them.
BTW, performance caching is disabled by default on Windows Server. Fast Swap is the default so those drives should be able to be swapped with no issues (depending on what is being done on them of course).
Philip