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USB hard drive doesn't graceful power off after eject on Windows 7

Fresh5 days ago
Mar 15, 20265428 views
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I have a couple of Seagate FreeAgent Go external USB hard drives and would like them to gracefully power off after ejecting in Windows 7. With Windows XP a few seconds after they are ejected they gracefully power off. When ejecting them on Windows 7 they just stay on and have to be physically disco…

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Fix for: USB hard drive doesn't graceful power off after eject on Windows 7

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I believe that this a new "feature" in Windows 7, and the problem is with all USB disks, nor just with FreeAgent. See also this thread for the same thing with other manufacturers. EDIT: Microsoft now explains this feature and how to undo it in this …

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