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Unmounting a USB external drive issues
I would wait a bit to make sure that all files written to are
complete. "civ2ru" wrote in message ... Brett, So I'm safe to just unplug the drive after I'm done writing to it? "Brett I. Holcomb" wrote: What it does is write directly to the device without caching (the disables caching part). The problem with removing a device is if the data to be written is cached but not yet written and the device is removed before the cached data can get written then bad things happen. Spirit wrote: That does sound as if you can disconnect it w/o using the Safe Removal, I have not seen such a device as yet. "civ2ru" wrote in message ... Spirit, so what do you interpret - "Optimize for quick removal - this setting disables write caching on the disk and in Windows, so you can disconnect this device without using the Safe Removal icon" - to mean? "Spirit" wrote: That article says nothing about 32/64 bit. Normally it is not a good idea to remove a device w/o using the SRH, "civ2ru" wrote in message ... Spirit, |
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