Safely remove drive

Stompa

http://www.pcworld.com/article/254868/safely_remove_usb_drives_just_by_unplugging_them.html

http://www.howtogeek.com/118546/htg-explains-do-you-really-need-to-safely-remove-usb-sticks/

bsod

anotheruser wrote: »

Who pulls it out while writing?

My PC is never writing anything without me knowing about it

Just like on rollercoasters - the seatbelt strap does nothing

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Read post 1, that's what the thread is about.

"Help I've corrupted my flash drive and lost all my work" problems are very common. Windows and other software can write to your drive without any user intervention - it can happen the moment you plug a drive in, regardless of the write cacheing settings.

Software is writing to your c drive all day without you knowing about it.

People have fallen to their death from rollercoasters, layers of safety are there for a reason.

Johnmcl7

Strider590 wrote: »

If this flag is on the device, whether it's being written to or not, then unplugging could cause damage. The most common problem is it'll set the dirty bit on the device, which causes windows to want to run chkdsk, which in turn may decide that the MFT is corrupt and try to fix it, which can then result in complete data loss OR every file on the drive having no data in it at all "0 bytes".

Agreed which is irritating if the PC boots with the USB drive in and you miss the chkdsk dialogue and get stuck waiting for it to finish before the PC reaches Windows.

I'm surprised at the people advocating not using using safely remove hardware because they've never seen an issue, frequently it can be fine but I find it a pain when it's not so for the couple of clicks it takes to eject the drive I prefer to save the time there than after when finding it shouldn't have been removed because something was holding a lock on it when it shouldn't have been.

John