"savely Remove" Any External Drive Not Possible - Error Message

I cannot remove external USB drives using the "Savely remove" icon,

this error message appears:

Saying the device cannot be removed because of an unknown error.

I cannot find processes accessing that drive.

What could I do to make it work?

 

You might want to go through the steps here starting with step 2 to see if any of these apply.
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articl...S&key=ka030000000tiGyAAI&kb=n&wwwlocale=en-us

 

Thank you very much for the link.

All of my hdds cannot be safely removed, WD MyBook, WD Elements, CnMemory, etc.

Step 2 does not seem to work, I have set the bin to "Do not move files to the Recycle Bin", respectively "remove files instantly", but it does not help:

I have left the default settings for all of my drives, "Optimize for Quick Removal":

Does this also apply to Win 10? And is it really correct? I have learned a drive / hdd must not be removed under any circumstances without the "safely remove" option. The MFT or anything other might get corrupted.

That does not sound very trustfully, actually I would not have a slim chance of data corruption.

And what does that mean:

What drive is a back up drive? My drive isn't one.

After the error message - the drive cannot be removed or something like that - occurs I try to find out which process accesses the drive with "Unlocker" but there is no process shown:


I do not use Media Player, Media Center, the indexing is shown to be finished.

So it appears there is no step left. Is there anything else I could do?

I did that (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/555665), the search obviously stopped at 100.000 lines:


And if a process were found it would be shown underneath C:, I guess, but there is not any line containing R:

 

Sorry, I have Win 10, not Win 7 anymore. I cannot find the signature editor anymore.

 

May be I should mention again, this message declares an (cannot be stopped because of an) "unknown error", it does not state that there are processes accessing the drive.

 

Turn off the computer then disconnect the drive.

 

That is one of the greatest advice I have ever heard in my entire life, thank you very much, plodr.

 

This was the 3rd sentence on the Seagate page I linked to

 

Yes, great, that's really true, very pleased about it, many thanks for pointing it out so clearly.