To ensure its security and integrity
4 Easy Ways to Safely Eject External Hard Drive in Windows 10
Recently, several colleagues have complained that they cannot eject external hard drives on their Windows computers. There are several reasons for this, including outdated or defective USB drivers that prevent the drive from being ejected, or other processes that are accessing the drive’s contents.
You can choose to disconnect the drive without first closing the applications that are reading from it, but this carries the risk of corrupting the data. You can use a data recovery tool to repair and recover the corrupted files, but there is no guarantee that this will work.
To ensure the safety and integrity of your external hard drive, we recommend that you only remove the drive after you have closed all processes that are using the drive.
