By using procexplorer I found out why. I'm still researching, but due to vista being kindof new I have not found out how to fix it.
During one of these attempts the following handles were open by the process 'system'.
With a little digging, I found out this was part of vista's new "transactional ntfs' filesystem. Does anyone know how to disable this for a single partition (or flush it to the point the handles all clear)? Without forcing these transactions to flush, the only alternative is to restart the computer. I don't like doing thatH:\
H:\$Extend\$RmMetadata\$TxfLog\$TxfLog.blf
H:\$Extend\$RmMetadata\$TxfLog\$TxfLogContainer0000000000000000000001
H:\$Extend\$RmMetadata\$TxfLog\$TxfLogContainer0000000000000000000002
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