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pen drive/usb flash drive question

post #1 of 24
12/2/04 at 12:54am
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Quick question, when you use a pen drive/USB flash drive, is it absolutely necessary to use the "safely eject hardware" thing in the system tray? If you don't use it, what could happen?
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post #2 of 24
12/2/04 at 1:08am
I removed a mp3 player once without doing that...thing wouldn't even turn on after that. I'm not sure exactly what happens, I just know that from now I make sure that everything is safe before I unplug anything from a usb port.
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post #3 of 24
12/2/04 at 2:07am
I have two USB flash drives.

I'm lazy and I usually dont safely eject the thumb drive. So far I havnt had any problems. I do the same thing when I plug in my digital camera, no problems either. So I would say that it's safe.

But for my external 200GB hard drive, i need to safely eject it or it wont get recognized the next time it's on.

So from my experiences;
Hard Drives (and hard drive based hardware) - safely eject
Flash memory - doesnt matter.
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post #4 of 24
12/2/04 at 2:30am
i saw that as long as there is nothing beeing transmitted, you can take flash media out without problems... i always use "safely remove hardware", though.
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post #5 of 24
12/2/04 at 3:30am
I always take it off without doing the safely remove hardware thing.. I have never had a problem with it so far.
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post #6 of 24
12/2/04 at 11:24am
You guys have never had problems??

The first time I took my USB flash drive out while it was idle, I lost a few files that I had copied over. After that I always used the Eject Hardware icon in the sys tray. It was with the Sandisk Cruzer 256MB.

Forgot to add, it was on Windows 2000
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post #7 of 24
12/2/04 at 11:34am
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i've actually had one problem thoe, after not "safely removing" on a few of the school computers those computers refuse to recognize my pen drive. But i haven't lost any files yet. thank god
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post #8 of 24
12/2/04 at 11:55am
I think it works just fine with WinXP. I remember doing that with Win2000 computer, it gave me that warning. But I didnt lose any file, though. I would "safely remove" the usb drive with Win98, Me, and 2000. But with WinXP, it works prefectly. I dont have to worry about that.
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post #9 of 24
12/2/04 at 5:53pm
I have a lexar secure jump drive and it got buggered up a couple of times when I removed it without going through all the motions. It could be because it is a secure drive. I don't know for sure, but I looked on lexar's site and it emphatically stated that you have to unplug the drive, there were also others who had the same problem I did, of lost items b/c they failed to eject it properly.
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post #10 of 24
12/2/04 at 6:17pm
Hmm, interesting. I have two USB flash drives.

one is Super Talent Flash 2GB USB 2.0:
http://www.supertalentflash.com/deta...ame=USB2.0_2GM
or
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...144016408&rd=1


and 256MB Transcend JetFlash 2A (kinda old):
http://www.transcendusa.com/DLCenter...=2&Contain=ALL

I have no problem with them.
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post #11 of 24
12/2/04 at 6:34pm
I don't think so, but I usually do just to be safe, I think that it is probably more for the computer than for the USB drive
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post #12 of 24
12/2/04 at 7:25pm
I agree, I think it is more for the computer, too.
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post #13 of 24
12/2/04 at 7:30pm
Taking it out without not safley *might* corrupt the data
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post #14 of 24
12/2/04 at 11:51pm
I live on the edge. I never use the Safely Remove Hardware thingie.

/hardware rebellion
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post #15 of 24
12/2/04 at 11:53pm
haha, we are rebels without a cause.
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post #16 of 24
12/3/04 at 1:39pm
I have to yank my USB hard drive out without stopping. It seems that it cannot be "stopped" cuz of the cheap USB enclosure i used. No problems with the files so far.
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post #17 of 24
12/3/04 at 2:31pm
With XP you can actually change the drive's properties so you don't have to use Safely Remove Hardware.
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post #18 of 24
12/3/04 at 4:06pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by The Anaconda
With XP you can actually change the drive's properties so you don't have to use Safely Remove Hardware.
Please explain further.
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post #19 of 24
12/3/04 at 4:54pm
Ah motherland!!!!
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post #20 of 24
12/3/04 at 7:44pm
I think i recall that there's a setting somewhere that you can pick if you want higher transfer speed (your computer) and you'll have to stop every peripherial devices as a tradeoff, and other option is to have a bit lower performance, but you dont have to safely remove hardwares. I forgot where we will find those options.
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