"is in use and could not be ejected"

I want to eject an external hard drive (actually my time machine hard drive). Time Machine is finished but the drive activity has not and is sucking the speed out of my computer (as it always does when Time Machine is active).
When I try to eject the hard drive, it tells me it "is in use and could not be ejected"
The drive is not in use. All I have open is Safari, TextEdit and Word. All documents are on my main hard drive. How do I find out what program it THINKS is using it, or do I just have to give up and lose all my pages of information?
This is actually a continuing problem. I hate to lose all my data to keep restarting the computer because of this drive.

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 Cheers, Tom

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    ~/Library/Internet Plug-ins
    If you don’t like the results of this procedure, restore the items from the backup you made before you started. Relaunch Safari again.

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