When ejecting CD, always get "a request was made to eject CD..." - howto stop?

On a Win-98 system, I don't know exactly when this started to happen,
or why, but every time I manually eject a CD I get a dialog box
telling me something like "a request was received to eject a disk that
is in use" with 2 buttons (eject and cancel).

Is there a setting or a reg entry somewhere that can over-ride this
dialog box such that it does not appear and hence the drive will eject
the disk when I want it to?

98 Guy wrote:

On a Win-98 system, I don't know exactly when this started to happen,
or why, but every time I manually eject a CD I get a dialog box
telling me something like "a request was received to eject a disk that
is in use" with 2 buttons (eject and cancel).

Is there a setting or a reg entry somewhere that can over-ride this
dialog box such that it does not appear and hence the drive will eject
the disk when I want it to?


I think you should concentrate on 'a disk that is in use'. Apparently
you have some software running which has a file open on the CD.
Maybe 'Process Explorer'
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ProcessesAndThreads/ProcessExplorer.mspx
can tell you which program this is. Goto Find-Find handle or dll,
give a substring (D:\ when your CD is D) press find. Process Explorer
should give you a list of all open files on the CD, and the program(s)
which owns the handles. However, I'm not sure if this find works
on W9x.

Ingeborg wrote:
"a request was received to eject a disk that is in use" with 2
buttons (eject and cancel).

I think you should concentrate on 'a disk that is in use'.

It was a simple file-copy operation (from CD to hard drive).

CD is powered down (no longer spinning) and explorer window showing
the CD contents was closed.

So you tell me what was still using the CD.

98 Guy wrote:

Ingeborg wrote:
"a request was received to eject a disk that is in use" with 2
buttons (eject and cancel).

I think you should concentrate on 'a disk that is in use'.

It was a simple file-copy operation (from CD to hard drive).

CD is powered down (no longer spinning) and explorer window showing
the CD contents was closed.

So you tell me what was still using the CD.


A very handy tool which keeps an eye on all your drives to warn you when
the disk is full? A virus? ...?

I hope Process Explorer can tell you.

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:33:08 -0400, 98 Guy wrote:

Ingeborg wrote:
"a request was received to eject a disk that is in use" with 2
buttons (eject and cancel).

I think you should concentrate on 'a disk that is in use'.

It was a simple file-copy operation (from CD to hard drive).

CD is powered down (no longer spinning) and explorer window showing
the CD contents was closed.

So you tell me what was still using the CD.

Was that a multimedia (most likely -- *.avi) file, that had been copied?

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"Mikhail Zhilin" wrote in message
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| On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:33:08 -0400, 98 Guy wrote:
|
| Ingeborg wrote:
| "a request was received to eject a disk that is in use" with 2
| buttons (eject and cancel).
|
| I think you should concentrate on 'a disk that is in use'.
|
| It was a simple file-copy operation (from CD to hard drive).
|
| CD is powered down (no longer spinning) and explorer window showing
| the CD contents was closed.
|
| So you tell me what was still using the CD.
|
| Was that a multimedia (most likely -- *.avi) file, that had been copied?
|
| --
| Mikhail Zhilin
| MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
| http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
| Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
| Please reply to the newsgroups only.
| ======

In addition to what has already been suggested, programs such as INCD and
other like programs may cause that type of situation, even though no packet
writing or issues related to their use was done.

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