I don’t fucking know why I can’t eject USB hard drives. I installed the SysInternals apps, and best they can tell me is that Dropbox is fucking with the drives. I explicitly told Dropbox to not fuck with USB drives. I don’t know who’s lying, I just want whoever is fucking with the drives to stop fucking with the drives, OK??? OK.
Force close Explorer.exeand you’ll be able to ejectThe USB drives are effectively perma-mounted and the eject command does not work, if even one instance of Explorer is open.
Just normally closing any file browser windows usually releases the drive. Windows is usually locking it in an explorer window for “I was in that drive an hour ago, I need it in case my human wants to go back” at least when Linux says no all you need to do is cd out of the drive, and navigate to any other folder in a file browser and then it’ll work