Windows can't stop your 'Generic volume'

I hate this message.
I know all about it, and that it is generally due to an open handle on the system for the drive. However, I ahve had some issues where there is no open handle and it still will not remove the drive. This issue seems to be new to Vista.

A few things I have tried:
handle.exe : --- Results in no open handles. Can't remove the drive.
ProcMon --- Results in no open handles. Can't remove the drive.
RemoveDrive.exe --- Results in no open handles. Can't remove the drive.
Unlocker --- Results in no open handles. Can't remove the drive.
Device Manger ito unstall the drive --- Requires a reboot. I am sure a reboot will fix the issue. Without a reboot, san't remove the drive.
Disk Management to remove the drive letter --- Says the drive letter was removed, but still shows up in Exporer. Can't remove the drive.
Restarted many services... MS and non-MS (like antivirus). However, if it was non-MS there would be a handle showing up. Only real option is an issue atthe OS level or something else MS that can access the drive at a very low level.

Anyone have any other good ideas?
I can't even find anything in ProcMon that will tell me how Windows knows that it can't remove the drive... lots of RegReads, and nothing that seems useful.

Well, I guess it is time to reboot so that I can work on this other drive....

Time travel

I hate when movies and TV shows try to involve time travel, but don’t really think about what would happen. A few good examples of this are Back To The Future, and Heroes.

Think of this scenario that often comes up, but indirectly:
I go back in time to meet myself somewhere 5 min ago, and tell myself not to go back in 5 min.

…If I did that, then I never went back. So I never stopped myself from going back to stop myself?
So then I did go back, but then I didn’t…

I hate when movies try to pass this off as:
1. Not affecting anything
2. Fixable
3. Fixable, as long as I can get myself to go back again and tell myself to go back after I told myself not to go back…


These are the things I think of while watching TV/movies.

On the other hand, I need to watch Primer again to make sure that I fully understand and agree with its time travel practices.