Cant Eject External Hard Drive Windows 10. I know this presents a danger to the files on. If you unplug a USB external drive before making sure it's safe to do so, you're courting disaster.
You should see your external drive listed in the Disk Management window, likely below your primary and any secondary disks. Is Windows slow and running out of storage space? It doesn't come up when right clicking the hard drive and it's faded out in file explorer.
And if I unplug my hard drive to enter bios, then (obviously) the bios doesn't detect the drive, so I can't choose a "do not boot from this drive".
Reinstalling USB controllers to make the second hard drive recognized.
Windows is worse in the sense that it cannot even read or write to HFS+ formatted volumes by default. After I closed all office documents and. Basically its an user interface inconsistency.