Un- mounting a USB drive twice

I have a 8G USB stick that's formatted with NTFS file system. I always
need to use "Safely Remove Harware" *TWICE*, even when I had made sure
that no process was using the USB stick. The first "Safely Remove" would
always ended as error.

Why?

Um... your whole reply didn't explain why I needed to un-mount the USB
stick twice. If the default option is "optimized for quick removal", why
do I need to un-mount the USB stick twice?

And pardon me, I have another drive formatted as FAT32. I only need to
un-mount it once. What's special with the NTFS the journaling file system?

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"Man-wai Chang ToDie (33.6k)" <> wrote in message
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> Um... your whole reply didn't explain why I needed to un-mount the USB
> stick twice. If the default option is "optimized for quick removal", why
> do I need to un-mount the USB stick twice?
>
> And pardon me, I have another drive formatted as FAT32. I only need to
> un-mount it once. What's special with the NTFS the journaling file system?


Have you seen how it appears in Device Manager? I have a SanDisk Cruzer U3
drive that appears as an NTFS volume, CD-Rom Drive as well as a U3 Device
(IIRC). It's possible that one of these devices needs to be disabled before
the other can.

None of this is a problem with ThinkPads, as they have a cool EasyEject (Fn
+ F9) action that gives you a menu to disable any custom groups of devices
with a single click.

ss.

leapfrog vista wrote:
> I gave him an app for a single click removal with mouse or keyboard
> shortcut!
>
> But he doesn't seem to care....

Because I want to know why ...

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