Windows 10: Windows 10 System Image

That is normal behaviour for any USB HDD. It is not classed as removable media so you can't eject in File Explorer.

Move it to the taskbar, you'll need it.

This means that a process has the disk in use, close any apps that may be using it. If you have Task Manager open that can prevent ejecting it because the drive is being monitored on its Performance tab. Try turning off indexing for that drive.

 

Turned off indexing, that didn't help. I did go into Mcafee Anti Virus and selected "ask me" to scan external drives to off, or something to that extent. That seemed to work, so it must have been the anti virus accessing the drive. I will try it a few times today to make sure. Thanks.

Before buying this machine I seriously considered an Apple, but being the cheapskate that I am I went for Windows. My buddy with a Mac laughs at me all the time because he doesn't have any of these bizarre Windows issues. Oh well, at least I have some cash left over......

 

@reelme , Quick Removal will not give you all the speed you can get from the drive. It will not have Write Caching enabled. That's why you don't see the EJECT option, it's not needed. With the drive attached, go into Disk Management (right click start button), click on the drive where I have the green circle and you will get a properties screen. Click POLICIES and tick the options I have in RED. Click ok. Wait for the screen to refresh and exit Disk Management. You should now get the full speed of the drive and the EJECT option in the taskbar icon.

 

You know, I did see that but didn't follow all the way through. When I did like you said it wanted me to reboot, but wasn't sure I should do this with the external attached in case it didn't want to boot again.

 

@reelme Yes, sometimes it will ask for a reboot. That's fine. It needs to set the cache on startup. Go ahead.

 

Got it, thanks again. By the way, did you fly F14's?

 

No. Biggest plane was a Beach 99 Twin turboprop.

 

I used to work as a flight instructor. Single engine land and sea, multi engine land and sea, instrument and aerobatics. Got my multi engine sea rating in a twin Republic Seabee when a buddy owned a Grumman Albatros. He was going to hire me to fly it in the Marshall Islands but the deal never panned out, but I got a chance to get a few hours in it - what a beast. Nowadays the only flying is radio control, my latest is a Super Chipmunk.

 

I just burned the Reflect rescue media to a USB flash drive. I notice in "other tasks" in the menu that I can add recovery boot menu option saying something about being able to start Windows PE without a recovery CD. I thought the whole purpose of the recovery media was to boot the machine, so should I ignore that option or what?

 

That option offers a quick way to restore a backup in case of a software failure vice a hardware failure. Say the latest Windows 10 update leaves your computer on the constantly spinning dots. You can use the boot menu option to boot into a Macrium Rescue boot.wim file stored on your hard drive and then restore an operable image.

It's like using Windows built-in rescue environment instead of booting to a Windows installation USB flash drive or DVD.

 

So if I am using this rescue media just in case of hard drive failure, then I do not need to worry about adding that in, correct???

 

It's not mandatory, as long as you know the Rescue Thumb you made works properly. Make sure you can boot from the thumb, and the screens all come up properly. The Boot Menu is optional, but very convenient. VERY important that your thumb drive works. TEST IT!!!

 

You say it is convenient, but I guess I don't understand the function. With the standard rescue flash drive I created, I could boot a new hard drive, then restore my image. So what exactly does this "recovery boot menu option" do? And where does it get stored - on the flash drive or the external drive with the image, on my PC hard drive, or where???

 

It's on the hard drive. It's available as an option when you power on or restart your computer, in the Boot Menu. If you only have one OS installed on your machine, you've probably never seen the Boot Menu. For now, just ignore it. Important thing is the Rescue Thumb. The Boot Menu option can be added at any time.

 

Great, thank you very much.