Question: When I plug in my external hard drive (again, NOT USB stick), and right click on the icon in This PC, there is no option to eject the drive.

There is a system tray option to “safely eject” it, but that doesn’t work at all.

The only way for me to remove it at the moment is to shut down the PC.

I am not looking for a third party solution (cuz they don’t work anyway – I’ve tried a range: Unlocker, the Quickandeasysoftware one, etc..). I’ve also disabled drive indexing.

And before you mark this as a duplicate almost ALL of the internet / SU articles are either on USB sticks, or on this shutdown method (e.g. Can’t eject external USB hard drive in Windows 10)

I just want to know if this is possible (it should be right?), and if so how.

Answer:

(from answers.microsoft.com)