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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   
      
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