4GB retractable USB drive £5.99 delivered

derrick

wissychraddle wrote: »

Down by your clock on the bottom right of your screen there should be an icon with a green arrow pointing left on it (when pen plugged in). When you hover your mouse over it, it should read, "safely remove hardware", click on that and it should say that your hardware is safe to remove (i.e. your pen) ATB

Yes I mentioned that icon in my post, and it is there all the time, (that might be because I have the ASDL modem plugged in at all times), and while waiting for a reply I double clicked that icon, whilst having opened My Computer, it brought up a window asking me to choose an item, I firstly chose the wrong item,(SpeedTouch USB ASDL, although did not say that at the time), therefore I closed down my web access, hence why I did not post back quickly enough.

After double clicking again I clicked on the correct item and it disappeared from the My Computer page, so thanks for that but, for once I found it out by trial and error.


Doing your suggestion it says; - "safely remove hardware",, with the pen in or out, so if that is OK to do, which is how I have been doing it, then I seem to be OK, but doing it as above in my first paragraph in this post, it did what I assume I should be doing, or has that icon with that "safely remove hardware", mean I do not need to go through the "shutdown stage" for the pen drive?

pulliptears

I havent used a PC for years, so if this is a daft question please ignore me. Can you not right click on the drive and safely remove?

annamc75

emmu wrote: »

Google has offered me "plays for sale"& theatres to stage them but nary a usb drive ....Should I reads it as a stupid post or as one only to be used by PLAYS customers ???

Not sure I completely understand but if you mean that you are unable to find the site, the one you are looking for is www.play.com

wissychraddle

derrick wrote: »

Yes I mentioned that icon in my post, and it is there all the time, (that might be because I have the ASDL modem plugged in at all times), and while waiting for a reply I double clicked that icon, whilst having opened My Computer, it brought up a window asking me to choose an item, I firstly chose the wrong item,(SpeedTouch USB ASDL, although did not say that at the time), therefore I closed down my web access, hence why I did not post back quickly enough.

After double clicking again I clicked on the correct item and it disappeared from the My Computer page, so thanks for that but, for once I found it out by trial and error.


Doing your suggestion it says; - "safely remove hardware",, with the pen in or out, so if that is OK to do, which is how I have been doing it, then I seem to be OK, but doing it as above in my first paragraph in this post, it did what I assume I should be doing, or has that icon with that "safely remove hardware", mean I do not need to go through the "shutdown stage" for the pen drive?

Yes you can do it by right clicking the "safely remove hardware" icon and select from the list.

Or as the other poster mentioned. In my Computer where the icon for the poen drive exists, you can right click that and it should have the option to safely remove.

To be honest, I rarely do it, I usually just pull mine out and take the risk. I have never lost any work, but I have been told it does happen. I rarely save anything improtant on them....

ATB

CJ

derrick

wissychraddle wrote: »

Yes you can do it by right clicking the "safely remove hardware" icon and select from the list.

Or as the other poster mentioned. In my Computer where the icon for the poen drive exists, you can right click that and it should have the option to safely remove.

To be honest, I rarely do it, I usually just pull mine out and take the risk. I have never lost any work, but I have been told it does happen. I rarely save anything improtant on them....

ATB

CJ

That must be were "eject" comes from, as when right clicking on the pen drive in My Computer amongst others is the option to "eject", but when clicking on that, nothing happens, (pen drive inserted). Also I have to leftclick the icon in the tray to get the options, just right clicking it only gives , "safely remove hardware".

But like you I have up to now just pulled it out. I assumed because the icon in the tray, which when hovered over states, "safely remove hardware",(with the pen in or out), it was safe to remove at any time, am I correct on that or should I really be using one of the other "safe" removals ?

pulliptears

wissychraddle wrote: »

To be honest, I rarely do it, I usually just pull mine out and take the risk. I have never lost any work, but I have been told it does happen. I rarely save anything improtant on them....

ATB

CJ

In the old days when I used PC I used to just pull it out, but with it just being a simple one click on the mac I do tend to do it now. To be honest I had never come across anyone having a problem by doing that until it happened to my friend. Then again, like you I dont save anything important on there myself and I always have another copy on my machine anyway.

BurningSnowman

wissychraddle wrote: »

I think what RoddyDogs meant to say is that he would not recommend using them for document backups. Due to the build quality of the items, fro example my last post on the thread. USB drives can break and if they do, there is little you can do to re-access the memory. The best thing for back ups would be an external harddrive.

This seems like pretty dodgy reasoning. You should assume that any consumer-grade storage might well fail tomorrow. Your hard drives (inside or out), CDs, pen drives, anything. It would be stupid of me to think I was safe with one copy just because my pen drive happens to be the one that CNET article said was solidly constructed (although I'm quite pleased ).

For important documents, it's far more important to have it on as many devices as you can at once than for each device to be a little more reliable. And in very important cases, at least one of these should be remote, in case someone nicks your whole carefully designed backup system at once, or burns your house down.

an_ecunemical_matter

Gone up to £6.99 now!!!!!

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boris3161

4GB Samsung flash drives available on Ebay at £5.65 P&P free

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be877

It is now £6.99, it was £5.99 this morning!