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Process Explorer: How to check what process is holding my external disk?
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Mar 15, 202611799 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have an external disk (MyBook) that I always plug in and out of my PC. The problem now is that when I want to stop the MyBook USB device, I get a "cannot be stopped right now" error. Is there any way, to use the Process Explorer to check what is holding my external disk, and thus preventing me fr…
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Hit menu Find -> Handle or DLL... and then put in the drive letter for your external drive, for example, . This should show you a list of all of the processes holding handles (links to files) on that drive. From @nwboson: Be sure to run procexp.exe …
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