Hi
I believe this is a common problem but haven't had any success in finding a solution so far. I am running Vista Home Premium SP1
I have an Iomega 320 gig external hard drive used to store music /pictures/ video files/games etc. When I want to power down my pc if I click on the safely remove hardware icon I get an error message saying that it is unable to do this as the volume is in use close all open files etc. Well it's not in use, I may turn it on but might not access it at all, neither is system restore turned on on this device, nor is it included in any scheduled tasks such as virus scanning (I do all that manually on this drive) I have made sure that write caching is disabled (even though I would prefer it switched on) and I still can't eject this drive.
This problem never occured when I ran XP on this PC with the same external drive.
Thanks