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No, I only have Seagate hard drives.
I was wondering if Seagate was locking the drive, but I exhausted all options trying to investigate that.
Then when I completely disabled Avast before connecting the drive, things seemed to work as normal. Previously, I’ve also had success (one time) in removing a drive after stopping all Avast shields, so that is what got me looking at Avast as the culprit (also, I started getting blue screens of death when I just UNsafely unplugged external drives after verifying that no related processes or services were running–except for Avast, and Windows said “check your anti-virus software” among other things as it counted down the reboot.
I’ll try this again later and report back.