Ok, so I got a new External Hard Drive for my birthday, which was September 2. The problems I'm having is:

-It doesn't autoplay like it should (I checked the autoplay settings and it's set to autoplay every device) Sometimes it DOES autoplay though, most of the time it doesn't. Now this goes on to my next problem;

-When it doesn't autoplay, the "Generic Volume" is still running, so when I try to shut it down (my HD), it brings up that error and says it's still running. I check task manager, nothing's open, nothing's running. Everything associated with my HD is shut down. The thing that's keeping it up is the fact it won't launch autoplay. I can fix this by disabling the autplay for all devices, but I want it to autoplay on everthing. I don't know how to stop autoplay on the HD it self though.

So those are my 2 problems. Now I noticed, the only way I can get it to safely turn off, is if I encounter a runtime error. I get these often when I open something that triggers it, I have no viruses or adware or malware. They're windows explorer runtime errors, so any folder I have open, closes... I guess when the runtime error occurs, it stop the autoplay that's trying to open with my HD, therefore letting me safely remove my HD after wards.

Now how can I fix these problems? The runtime error is going to take a Vista CD to fix the corrupt file. So I might not be able to fix anything myself.

hmmm