Windows 10: audiodg.exe process preventing me from ejecting my external drive on Windows 11

Title might seem weird but that's really what's happening. I don't know why but whenever I plug in my external nvme drive, the process audiodg.exe creates a file called "elevoc_dnn_kernel.txt" on it, and it keeps that file in use for hours. Also I don't know why it's always that specific external drive. I have three other hard drives and sometimes I have them all plugged in together, but the process always chooses the nvme drive. And if I plug in one of the hard drives without the nvme drive this process doesn't show up. It's not a problem, I can just unplug the drive directly, but I'm just cu

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Can not eject anyy external HDD or USB drive in Windows 11

Good day,

Have a very annoying problem with Windows 11. Can not safely remove or eject any external HDD or USB drive from my laptop.

In event manager always see one warning:

The application System with process id 4 stopped the removal or ejection for the device USB\VID_1058&PID_262F\575833324437313956305235.

Process command line:

List of affected devices:

STORAGE\Volume\{4d71d5db-62cb-11ed-9982-0c9a3cb2404d}#0000000000100000

Tried changing drive letter, disable indexing, nothing helps...

 

Windows10 randomly refuses to safely eject external disks

Hello there,

More than 11 months ago I expose in these forums some problems in Windows10.

One of them is the denial to safely eject external disks.

Here is what happens: I connect one of my external disks to my pc, then I move/copy/delete/edit/view some files, and later, after closing EVERYTHING, Windows10 refuses to safely eject my disk. It replies, "Windows can't stop your 'Volume' device because
a program is still using it".

Windows doesn't tell me what program is employing my drive. And I know for sure there is nothing employing it.

That issue happens randomly. I mean, sometimes I can safely eject the disk, and sometimes I cannot.

Today I downloaded from Microsoft the app named "procexp64.exe" which showed me what is employing my external disk.

And, they are Windows processes only!

Let's say my disk's root ID is "M:\"

The Process Explorer found:

• Four "system" processes with open files in M:\$Extend\$RmMetadata\$Txf.........
• Two "explorer" processes with open directory M:\

Hence, Windows doesn't allow me to safely eject my external disk because Windows forgot it was itself the one using my disk!

Almost 1 year has passed, and the issue still persists.

Annoying!

 

Eject options inconsistent between USB stick and USB external drive - Windows 10

Hi,



Before we proceed, I need more information to help you better.

• 
  Have you tried connecting different external drive?
  
• 
  Do you face the same issue with different external drive?
  

As a work around , I suggest you to connect different external drive to your system and check whether will you get the option to Eject from File explorer or not.

And also try connecting same external drive to different system and check if the issue persist.



Reply with necessary information so that can assist you better.