"Windows can't stop your 'Generic Volume' device because a program ..."

[MikeHalloran]

... is still using it. Close any programs that might be using the device, then try again later."

How stupid is that? Clearly Windows knows which program is accessing the device, an external hard drive, but it won't tell me. I have closed everything I can think of after copying a small directory from the external drive to the desktop. There seems to be no indication that the write is not complete.

How do I flush any write cache, or find out what's pending?

Thanks

 

[satrow]

Hi, Mike.

Resource Monitor's Disk tab should help pin down the process, I usually fire it up from TaskMan's Performance tab or via Run: ResMon.

 

[rclarke250]

Try turning off windows indexing.

 

[MikeHalloran]

Thank you both.