Western Digital Passport Essential cannot eject Windows 7

I have a Western Digital Passport Essential 320 GB for daily use. Whenever I have to eject it from my home PC (Windows XP SP3) desktop tool to remove the device safely, it will be stop turning after 5 to 10 seconds and ready to pull the plug.  But it didn't happen with my laptop (Asus 1215P + Win 7). Whenever I try to eject, it will not stop spinning while waited for 30 minutes.  While computer Win 7 says that the disc was successfully deleted and do not find in the menu.  The solution is to turn off my laptop, unplug the drive and then turn it back on. But it's too much loss of time.
Is there something wrong with WD Passport when you work on Windows 7?  Please help me...

Hello

If a USB key is attached to the XP computer and is "ready to be ejected", you will notice that the light is off. XP stop actually all power and data transfer to the USB device.

Windows7 does not, therefore, you will notice that there is hard disk activity yet, but it should be safe to disconnect it from the computer.

After that, the hard drive must stop and you can then use the power switch and the power off of the external drive.

I also suggest you look in the device, with the connected player manager and see if there are power options, such as to turn it off or turn it off when not in service or after a specific time period.

To develop, this feature is by design, it allows people to continue to load specific devices (phones, mp3 players, etc.) once they were ejected from the aircraft.  Once you have removed your device safely, you will incur no damage even if the light is still on.

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