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need help! very unusual

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Darkhorse!

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I need help with this safely remove hardware icon. i know what it is but it says to remove my wd74 harddrive if i click stop would it stop my hard drive? this is very weird why does it want me to stop the hard drive? :confused:
 
It doesn't really "stop" like spin-down the drive. It just attempts to kill any processes that might be accessing it, so you don't lose data or corrupt the drive.

Works most of the time for me, sometimes for no reason I can find it gives me "still in use cannot be stopped, try again later" messages.
 
Correct, it closes any open handles to the drive, and perhaps most importantly on a hot swappable fixed disk, flushes the buffer of any cached writes and forces them to be 'written through' to disk before it is removed. This isn't a problem on external drives, as you should never have write caching enabled on them. However, on a fixed disk, data can be corrupted if cached writes are lost in the buffer when a disk is powered down, particularly if you don't use a journalised file system such as NTFS or Linux FS3. If you do lose cached writes on a journalized file system, the journal of changes allows the file to be restored to its pre-write state rather than becoming corrupted.
 
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