Reply To: External Hard Drive Eject Issues Hi anyone, Quick query for those who know about these things. I have a 1tb External Hard drive (Toshiba Canvio). When I eject it and get the confirmation to go…

[Cahal Shillmo]

UK Sentinel wrote:

Cahal Shillmo wrote:

I recall there used to be a way to identify which services or applications were accessing a drive at a given time, but I cannot remember how to find it….

I use ‘Process Explorer’ great little program to download and see what is running https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

 

Thanks, I ran this app. Is there a way to filter the displayed processes down to what is using the drive?

I tried to follow the steps here:

https://www.imatest.com/2017/01/how-to-determine-what-processes-are-using-a-device/

Nothing comes up when I do the device search ( Find > Find Handle or DLL).

I tried finding by the drive (eg E:), but a million and one processes come up so that method of searching doesnt seem to work either (similar results occur when the search is conducted without the device connected). 🤔

 

Thanks again.

 

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