Remove USB: Lack of notification "safe to remove".

About a month after upgradinng for Windows 7, Windows stopped display the "Safe to remove" notification when I try to eject my drive from the USB port. I usually go ahead and remove the flash drive and have not noticed any problems, but worry that I do not receive the notification.

Hi IndyTim,

It is possible, that there is a file corrupted on your system.  Please see the following article for instructions on how to launch the SFC Scan to help solve this problem:

http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/929833

I hope this helps!

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