March 17, 2008 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Following up on last week's guide to creating a shortcut to Windows' Safely Remove Hardware dialog, the How-To ...

So, I recently got a new toy: a nifty 32 MB PenDrive (www.pendrive.com), which I'm using to carry my work files about to and from home/laptop/work/etc. It's a great system, and saves me a lot of ...

Several users have experienced an issue in which an attached FireWire or USB drive will not eject. Instead, an error message pops up claiming the drive cannot be ...

Safe ejection is good practice as it can prevent data corruption, but incidents are relatively rare. Modern OS and device caching reduce failure risk, so abrupt removal usually causes no harm. It's ...

How many of you actually Safely eject the USB stick from your PC? Not many, I am sure. We have a habit of randomly pulling the USB drive out of the PC without safely ejecting it, which sometimes ...

On Windows, Quick Removal allows safe drive removal without ejecting, but the feature isn't perfect. Mac systems rely on safe ejection due to background tasks like Time Machine backups, while Linux ...

To be clear the 'safely remove' usb drive option will continue to be a part of the system tray for the foreseeable future. Microsoft has confirmed that though it stays it's not something you need to ...

New to the Mac? Don't just yank that flash drive out! Here's how to eject a disk the right way. It is oh-so-tempting to just pull that flash drive out of your USB port when you’re done with it. But ...

Apple has issued the Slot Combo Drive firmware update for PowerBooks and Xserves with Combo Drives. This update installs new firmware on PowerBook and Xserve combo drives. The update prevents combo ...

I'm running Win2k on my Dell PII-350. It has an Iomega ATAPI ZIP-100 drive. For some reason, the drive is being write-cached. If I save a large file to it, it'll write only some data, once a second, ...