Disk not ejecting properly??

[Graham]

Several morning over this past week.... 3 if my memory serves.... I see this warnings on my desk top....
Disk not ejecting properly... etc etc see image. I cannot figure how and why.... Some time only 3 windows show.
This morning there were double up as per this Screen Shot
Any thoughts?????

 

[Graham]

The random happening of the "Disk not ejecting properly" occurred again this morning.... The first report was two days ago...
Strange to say the least

 

[Graham]

Maybe since there is no response here, someone could tell me were to go.... as in .... information as to my problem.
All "where to goes" will be accepted with interest.

 

[chas_m]

I seem to remember a similar post from you that described a similar problem ... the issue is that the computer is going to sleep and the external hard drives are not being ejected properly before that happens. The solution (if I recall correctly) was to manually eject the hard drives before putting the machine to sleep for the evening.

If you are powering down your computer completely, you must eject the drives manually before this happens. Not doing so will, sooner or later, corrupt the external drives.

 

[Graham]

This happening of the disk not ejecting properly.... is truly random. It did not occur since last Sat (morning) when I awoke and again this morning (Tues)
Every nite the routing is the same.... It is set to sleep after x number of minutes. So.... since the routine is the same every night then one would think that the alert windows would be there every night. It begs the question.... this damn computer has a mind of its own..!!!!!!!

 

[Monvic]

By any chance is the power being turned off to the computer, eg a power bar being turned off? This would produce these warnings.

 

[Graham]

Found the problem..... It was all to do with a flaky USB Port.