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Originally Posted by HarryT
I guess that I just regard it as something that's so easy to do, why take the chance of trouble by not doing it?
... the CyBook Gen3 [has] a pretty common problem ... and the cause is pretty well always file system corruption ...
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Yeah, I definitely agree. I always "eject" mine, too. Except, of course, when I forget and/or can't >.> Also, when I referred to file system corruption, I was thinking more along the lines of the whole system, i.e. you cannot read any files on your device without repair. That has happened to me, and it really sucks. If a small number of files are affected, I'd call that file corruption, and I've definitely experienced that after haphazard disconnects. Fortunately, filesystems are usually robust enough to contain the corruption to files that were being accessed during the disconnect.
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Originally Posted by Arcticnick
The problem is that when I try to safely remove the PSR-505 hardware in the device controler it tells me...with a yellow exclamation mark, 'The device 'Generic volume' cannot be stopped right now. Try stopping the device later.'
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Articnick, why are you using the device manager? That's several clicks deep into the OS. Here's steps on how to do it more simply in XP (not sure if the same applies when using Vista--probably not)
http://psy.swansea.ac.uk/staff/carte.../USBDrives.htm
Of course, that might not solve the problem you are having. You should make sure nothing on your system is accessing the device when you want to disconnect it, or it'll try to prevent you. Try quitting as much as you can, one thing at a time, until you're able to "safely remove" the device. Hopefully that will help you identify the culprit application.