How can I eject a virtual disk that keeps coming back?

For my MBP, with OS 10.6, I bought a WD eternal hard drive which comes with back-up software, "WD SmartWare." I use the Time Machine, and don't need other back-up software (I assume). A virtual disk holds the "SmartWare", and it shows on the desktop whenever the hard drive is connected.
Here's the problem: If I try to eject the virtual disk and the partitions that I've put on the drive, and put my MBP to sleep to move to another location, the virtual disk icon immediately reappears - it will not stay ejected. If I simply pull out the USB of the drive, pick up MBP and go about my business elsewhere, when I return and reconnect the drive I get a warning that I've disconnected the drive incorrectly and could lose data, hence "don't do that!"
So, so far the only way I can avoid the warning is to shut down the MBP and then disconnect the drive and leave. Then, the drive is happy.
Question: is there a way to eject the virtual drive so that it stays ejected, so I can disconnect the WD hard drive to allow me a change of physical location using sleep mode and not shut-down for the Mac?
Tomas

if you use disk utility to delete all partitions on that drive and create a new partition and format it with mac os journalled your problem will be solved

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