Hi Igor thanks for responding. You were right - it was another process blocking the stop command but the wholocks command wasn't much help. It told me that there were 2 processes one blank and one svchost.exe which could be a lot of things. Anyway, I switched the script to use forcedstop as you sugg...

I have been using the USB Safely Remove command line feature to start and stop an external USB drive. I would start the drive using the return command, run my backup scripts and when done stop the drive. A week ago I had to replace my backup drive with a larger one. Now when I call the return comman...