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1. COULD NOT UNMOUNT DISK PASSPORT ERROR UPDATE
2. COULD NOT UNMOUNT DISK PASSPORT ERROR FULL
3. COULD NOT UNMOUNT DISK PASSPORT ERROR SOFTWARE
4. COULD NOT UNMOUNT DISK PASSPORT ERROR CODE
5. COULD NOT UNMOUNT DISK PASSPORT ERROR MAC

Just make sure that the activity you are deleting is not vital to your comp/drive

COULD NOT UNMOUNT DISK PASSPORT ERROR CODE

Then terminate all of the activity that is still running using the same code tokyojimu used: So definitely if you are still having problems open up the terminal and type in the following line of code: (This will list all background activity in the Drive):

Personally I had to terminate mds, as well as thnuclnt, and finally my drive was free!

COULD NOT UNMOUNT DISK PASSPORT ERROR SOFTWARE

I am also running a VM off my WD drive, and there was also some background operations happening, despite closing all the software associated with the drive. The unfortunate part is it might be different case to case. Mds seems to be a common problem for all WD drives, luckily it is completely harmless to quit the program. I quit all programs in my external drive, checked some of the running operations in activity monitor, and took the drive out of spotlights search index. Ugh, after 3 hours of trying to figure out the problem I also tried the lsof/killall method and it luckily worked.

COULD NOT UNMOUNT DISK PASSPORT ERROR UPDATE

I've gotten into the habit of running to this forum whenever I encounter a problem lol hope everyone on here is enjoying the holiday season.ĮDIT: Just wanted to update my post to say that I restarted my MacBook Air and the problem was fixed cleanly, no data was lost. As of right now I still haven't ejected the HDD, do you guys think it'd be safe to force eject? Maybe I'll give it another hour or so and see if the unknown program that is still using the disk finishes up. I don't want to ruin or damage any of the files that I just spent hours backing up. I guess I could force elect it, but I'm pretty hesitant to do so. I clicked the "Eject (my) Backup" disk, but it says one or more programs may be using it.

COULD NOT UNMOUNT DISK PASSPORT ERROR FULL

Once Time Machine finished it's full backup of the OS and my files, I got the notification that it was completed. I recently got a 1 TB Western Digital "My Passport" HDD, and did a full backup with Time Machine. I just wanted to add that I am also having this problem. Hey all, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays Hope that helps someone else save time with this vexing little problem. Otherwise what you have launched could be the problem. I always prefer to leave those to last.Īnd I am assuming anyone trying to solve this problem knows not to intentionally launch programs when doing this trouble-shooting. And then if worse comes to worse you can always try the hard core - erase your drive and start over options. If those easy (non-destructive/non-Terminal) solutions don't work, progress to the more techie solutions according to your comfort level. In other words, see what you can do 1) in Spotlight to either let it run or turn it off via the System Prefs>Privacy setting 2) check for items you can turn off one at a time in " Login Items" (Users) think about all the software you have running in the background right from startup - antivirus, drive monitors, malware monitors, etc. Just a suggestion to others (which I learned through the process) look at the most logical major problems in turn before jumping into the uber solutions related to the first cause.

I had made a clone, re-initialized my boot drive, and when I pulled the application back via Apple's Migration assistant, it caused DrivePulse to run from the clone (which was the disk that wouldn't eject). It turned out to be Drive Genius' DrivePulse, but not really their problem per se. Since this remains the #1 Google link for a solution to the problem, I'll through in my two cents worth.

I can then work with this in either Apple or Windows environment.Just spent 4 hours on this problem. I was running Panther and recently upgraded to Tiger and it didn't solve anything either.Ĭan somebody help me? Should I consider buying another harddrive? I reformated it again but it didn't solve anything. The volume has no owner but the disk utility doesn't see any file on it (but the finder does).

COULD NOT UNMOUNT DISK PASSPORT ERROR MAC

I've tried to plug it directly on the Mac (it's normally connected thru a USB 2 HUB) - same story: when I turn it on, it takes ages to mount, I can see what's on it, I can copy things onto it but I can't copy from it. When I run the disk utility to veify it, I receive the following message: "Verify volume failed with error Could not unmount disk". I can copy things on it but I can't read them. When I acquired my Mac I backed it up and reformated it in HFS+ (journaled) from the previous NTFS file format and then. I have been using my Hitachi USB2 harddrive on windows XP without any problem. I've just switched the the wonderful Mac world but I have an issue with my exWindows external harddrive.