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|    mark lewis to Gunslinger (Andrew Ershikov)    |
|    forcing the shutdown of external devices    |
|    11 May 13 13:31:28    |
       MM> it sucks how my external hard drive cant be shut down properly         MM> sometimes even when i want to eject the device. is there any way i         MM> can find out what programs are utilizing that device?               G(E> What exactly occurs to a HDD? What you mean under "cant be shut        G(E> down properly"? Are bad sectors appears? Or files are damaged?              it is an external HDD... probably connected via USB... they must be unmounted       first or data corruption can occur...              )\/(ark              ---         * Origin: (1:3634/12.42)    |
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