Question about Western Digital My Book Essential Edition (WDG1U5000N) 500 GB Hard Drive

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Tried to safely remove software as directed but states vol cannot be stopped and is unable to turn off hard drive

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This usually means that a file on the drive is in use by an application, or the operating system. Try quitting all your applications and then ejecting the drive. If that doesn't work, I would just restart the computer.

Posted on Sep 19, 2007

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