Strange external FireWire HDD problem

[hotwinduk]

Greetings all,

I have an annoying problem.

I run a laptop with Windows XP SP2.

I have several external hard drives, all of them using FireWire.

Sometimes I run them individually, and sometimes I daisy-chain them.

On one of my drives, when I try to disconnect it, I always get the "Device generic volume cannot be stopped right now. Try later."

I don't have anything open on that drive.

My other drives are okay. It always happens with just this drive.

Any ideas?

[BipolarBill]

Disable System Restore on all external drives. Scan all drives for viruses and spyware. Something is running in the background.

[hotwinduk]

Ta, BPB. You are a champ.