Safely Remove Hardware Bug

Okay, im really hoping someone can give me some advice on how to deal with this cause im at my wits end. I have an external drive (Seagate Freeagent 750GB) which i cannot safely remove from Windows 7. Everytime i try, it tells me that a program is accessing the disk and cannot be removed. So i looked into the problem a little deeper and found it's not a third party program as i originally suspected but it's Windows own file system locking my drive.

During a scan with a sysinternals application, this path ( H:\$Extend\$RmMetadata$txflog ) among others in the directory would be accessed constantly by svchost.exe. This is part of a new filesystem feature called Transactional NTFS present in Vista/7 Operating Systems.
I then tried to shutdown this feature on my external which did indeed work, however when i try to remove the device, the service resumes once again. This is beyond infuriating and i really dont know how this error got past the MS Tech boys during testing both Vista and 7.

Im also using the 64bit version of Windows 7 so using one of my favourite appz i.e (Unlocker) doesn't work.
Has anyone found a workaround solution for this other than shutting down your system with said hardware still attached.

 

did you install any programs or windows components to the drive?

is there a page or hibernation file on the drive?

 

No programs or components installed to drive H:
Optimized for quick removal
Indexing disabled on Drive H:
I disabled hibernation and the page file is on C:

When i ran Handles, it revealed only that svchost.exe was accessing this path

H:\$Extend\$RmMetadata\$TxFLog\

When i attempt to remove the lock, it simply starts again.

 

do you have truecrypt or windows system restore doing anything with the drive?

What about search, this is a different setting than indexing.

Have you run a good antimalware scan paying particular attention to rootkit infections?

 

I dont use Truecrypt and Windows System restore has been turned off for H:. I checked for any Sys Restore handles, they're werent any.

I shutdown the Windows Search service for a try, still can't remove it.

I'll run a scan with my AV but i doubt anything will turn up. I just got this machine 2 days ago with a fresh installation.

 

I've found some info on these files:

from: this blog post

and some info from: Vista Error 0x0000C1F5

and: article from MS community (OP did already try this method and didn't work, i think. it's just for informational purpose).

cheers