Normally, when you finishusing an external hard drive on Mac, the last thing you should do is to safely unmount the disk and then eject it from your Mac machine. However, many Mac users complained that they got the warning message "The disk wasn't ejected because one or more programs ma...
The situation is completely different if the disk was ejected, and after that, it does not work. Do not waste your time, do not open the box yourself; send the disk to the nearest tech support company. They should help. Case 1. The external hard drive is not detected Here is how to...
Like this user, you may find yourexternal hard drive keeps disconnecting on macOS Sonomaand constantly receives the warning "Disk Not Ejected Properly." This disk disconnecting issue may corrupt data on your external drive or cause exported or downloaded files to disappear from the disk. In this ...
Since I migrated and transferred data from an early 2019 iMac I keep getting alerts that the "Disc was ejected improperly". Sometimes this happens when the Finder still shows the external drive is connected, and sometimes the drive is booted off and the computer doesn't recognize it until I ...
My external hard drive was working fine about a week ago. But one day, I ejected the hard drive and the icon disappeared, so I thought it was safe to unplug it. When I did, it said the hard drive was not properly removed. It still works fine when I use it the next day, but th...
Going to the system tray and trying to safely remove the external USB drive fails with message "The device is currently in use. Close any programs or windows that might be using this device, and then try again."Albeit a common problem in other version of Windows, my previous experience ...
The “This device is currently in use” error is one of the more common problems Windows users confront while trying to safely remove an external drive from the computer. Essentially, this means the system thinks the drive is in use, and thus it cannot be safely removed. This ...
I use a Mac and play Sims 4 (via Origin) from an external hard drive using a symlink. I accidentally unplugged the drive while still playing, and of course got a notification that it hadn't been ejected properly. I immediately plugged it back in and tried exiting th...
Then, I ejected the external drive, reconnected it, and opened iMovie from the external drive folder. It took a short while to verify, but it eventually opened. As you can see in the screenshot below, all eight of my editing projects remained intact and available in iMovie. ...
I regularly have some 6 drives to be 'Ejected' / Safely remove. After exiting all applications, I start closing the drives from the taskbar button. Mostly 2 or 3 are 'halted' because of some process. It involves the abovementioned process. Then I have to lauch LockHunter, ...