Eject Button not Displaying

[SoCalDude]

I have plugged in a couple of different USB external drives (physical, rotating drives) and the Eject button never appears. However, it does appear when I plug in thumb drives/sticks.

This happens on my two computers, each running OneCommander.

Is this the expected behavior?

Thanks!

[SoCalDude]

As a follow up to my original post, I'm using OC v3.67.0.0 on Windows 11. 

[SoCalDude]

After reading some previous posts, it could be because Windows doesn't recognize these external drives as removable. So, if that's the case, that would explain why OC won't show the Eject button. 

So, is this true of all (most) external spinning drives, as opposed to solid state drives and thumbsticks?

[OneCommander Support]

I am not sure how Windows determines which drive is "removable" or if it is up to drive to identify itself. I have tested many external SSD drives, NVMe-s, thunderbold NVMe RAIDs, USB enclosures for SSDs and similar non-mechanical disks to figure out why most were listed as "fixed"/non-removable. I have not found a way to identify the disk interface or other way to reliably distinguish external disks from Internal. Even worse, in my fulltime job as system admin (college) I've seen PCs that have internal disks listed under taskbar's eject button, and I've had students ejecting the system drive and complain something is not working. 

You mentioned working for Microsoft for a decade, and didn't say which team, but as someone spending half the time development time of the past 11 years looking for workarounds to make Windows functional, it still seems that Windows is stuck in the 90s before any of these "new" technologies and there is clearly no improvement in anything but superficial cosmetic changes.