You can try booting from OS X recovery by holding CMD + R at the time of startup. Once booted from OS X recovery, select Terminal from the utilities and then at the unix prompt enter:
- diskutil list
- then press return and look for the disk identifier and enter the following command with the disk identifier:
sudo diskutil unmountDisk /dev/(enter here disk identifier name)
- Press return and enter your admin password if prompted. This should unmount all volumes of the physical drive.
- If still the above method didn't work, then the last option is to force the entire disk to unmount.
- For that using the terminal application again, enter the following command: