The Dance while you wait to get permission to remove a drive/device
Windows has always sucked in this area.
I have just this at the moment. A W7 laptop with a USB3 drive connected. Windows says the equivalent of
'Sorry Dave, I can't let you do that'.
When I tell it to eject the drive.
Yet, there is nothing using it. I've even restarted explorer. Still no joy.
The only solution it to reboot the sodding computer unless I just yank the plug.
Can't they ever get it right? Perhaps I haven't paid homage to Bill Gates often enough?
Never happens to me on Linux (lsof to the rescue) or OSX
Biting the hand that feeds IT
