Windows 10: Can't eject external drive "In Use"

Hi All,believe me, I researched and tried all kinds of things, but ...Eject savely my external Seagate drive ... allways rejected ... "is currently in use".I restarted explorer in Task Manager...disabled indexing ... used Sysnative Process Explorer with the resultshowing first: explorer.exe PID 5436then: PID 17924don't know what to make of this???I use the drive as a backup with toolkit Seagate but it is always paused / not continuously backing up and toolkit not runningin the background. I akways want to disconnect the drive after making a backup.Anyone with some ideas?It never used to be a

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Windows 10 Eject Button Missing for external hard drive

Why would, of all things, the eject button of a mounted external hard drive go missing? That's a Windows operating system for you. I'm using Explorer and right-clicking over the drive letter - but, no listing for ejecting the drive. Anyway, before I just rip out the USB cable of my external hard drive - is there a reasonable solution (that's under 25 nebulous steps) to just EJECT a freakin' hard drive plugged into Windows 10? Is it really necessary for every little thing in Windows to turn into a complicated procedure?

But, the option to format the external drive is in the menu.

 

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

Hi,



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

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  Have you tried connecting different external drive?
  
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  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.

 

how eject external drive

Where is "eject external drive" located and is it really necessary?