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    cant safely eject HDD from FW160 (please help!!!)

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by joey13, Dec 11, 2008.

  1. joey13

    joey13 Notebook Geek

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    its never ever let me safely eject my external HD (WD my passport) from my vaio. it just stalls for 10 seconds and tells me i cant do it cause its in use
    ive hooked it up to a desktop several times, and each time i done it on that its worked flawlessly, not even taking a second. whats up with my vaio?!
     
    joey13, Dec 11, 2008
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    What Windows on the notebook and on the desktop?
     
    namaiki, Dec 11, 2008
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  3. joey13

    joey13 Notebook Geek

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    vista on the notebook, xp on the desktop
     
    joey13, Dec 11, 2008
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    It seems some programs on Windows are hooked up your HDD. Try to close all programs.
     
    huh, Dec 11, 2008
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    the thing is, my FW has 70+ processes running... i dont know what all of them do, and its probably one of those thats using it. all that bloatware is a pain.
     
    joey13, Dec 20, 2008
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