Device Removal Error

Hello, I'm hoping someone can help me with this problem.

I made a rookie mistake and removed my external hard drive without unmounting it first, so now I keep getting the "Device Removal Error" message and the drive keeps ejecting itself then remounting.

Is there a way to fix this problem? Can someone help me please.

Thanks.

Restart the computer with the removable drive attached.

Thanks for the speedy response.

I've had this problem for several months now, and have restarted with the external drive several times, mind you that was with a complete shut down as opposed to a restart, yet the message keeps coming up. I have now done a restart as opposed to a complete restart and the message hasn't come up yet. Do you know if a restart versus a complete shutdown would make a difference.

Anyway thanks again for assisting so quickly.

Shutting down would actually be the preferable, odd. With the disc external mounted open Disc Utility and run repair and verify permissions on the external drive. I guess if the problem doesn't re-appear then you are good to go.

Hi Baggss,

Well it took a few days but the Device Removal Error came back up again, so I tried the advice you gave me and ran the Repair Disk function, but then noticed that the Verify Disk Permissions and the Repair Disk Permissions is greyed out, I'm unable to run them. I'm able to run Verify Disk and Repair Disk, which I did and they both came back saying the disk appears to be ok, but again I can't run the Verify and Repair Disk Permissions options.

I'm thinking this could be an indicator of a problem, any ideas on what may be wrong. Perhaps I don't have the disk setup properly?

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.