[hawthorn]

Since i recently got my laptop reformatted, the "safely Remove Hadware" icon appears every time I turn it on. Its very annoying as I have to go thorugh the motions of pressing "stop" and "close" et every time. Also i notice when I press stop it gives me 3 choices; Stop a hardware device/USB mass storage device/Generic Volume E

I go through the motions, just as if I had something plugged in, but i dont!

kc

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Open your Control Panel, Go to System then Hardware then device mgr and if you have a Drive E enabled that isn't supposed to be there, disable it. It's my guess that while it was in the shop they used an external hd or flash drive or something while working on your machine, and the traces are still there in Windows, so Windows is looking for the missing device and displaying the icon.

Johanna

[Johanna]

Open your Control Panel, Go to System then Hardware then device mgr and if you have a Drive E enabled that isn't supposed to be there, disable it. It's my guess that while it was in the shop they used an external hd or flash drive or something while working on your machine, and the traces are still there in Windows, so Windows is looking for the missing device and displaying the icon.

Johanna

[hawthorn]

Johanna

Thanks for reply. I think my flash drive is actually drive E. It is in fact USB Mass storage device that is highlighted when I click on the icon; in properties its Location 0.

kc

[hawthorn]

Yes its still USB Mass Storage Device that is appearing, but I have nothing attached!

KC