Windows 10: Trying to safely eject my flash drive- keeps saying it's "currently in use"

Discus and support Trying to safely eject my flash drive- keeps saying it's "currently in use" in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; When I tried to "safely eject" my flash drive, I got the message that it was in use and to stop any programs that are using it it sure would be nice if... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by MiLa09~, Dec 16, 2022.

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    Trying to safely eject my flash drive- keeps saying it's "currently in use"


    When I tried to "safely eject" my flash drive, I got the message that it was in use and to stop any programs that are using it it sure would be nice if it actually listed the program that is supposedly using it. Eventually I opened disk management, then checked if it noted anything on there, and then pressed the eject option from there. All it did was basically remove the device from being listed on there- I didn't get that "ok to safely remove device now...." message. So I have no idea if that means I can safely remove it or not. Like, does doing that clicking the eject option from the dis

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