Hi Kevin,
No, that's not true. You need to eject it properly with the eject
button in the context menu when the drive is highlited.
This goes for all digital media.
Pat Ferguson
At 02:20 PM 12/3/2010, you wrote:
Hi:
Also, in my experience with thumb drives, if the drive is closed then
it is safe to just go ahead and remove the thumb drive from the USB
port, but make sure that all the folders in the drive are closed.
Kevin Huber
On 11/28/10, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Also, the safely remove can be shown if you hilight the drive in the
> computer and hit shift f10 and go down the menus and you will see it.
>
> Neville <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The instructions follow.
>> Neville.
>>
>> To quickly and safely remove a USB flash, pen, thumb drive under Win 7
>> without using the safely remove procedure. Do the following.
>>
>> highligh the USB drive in Computer
>>
>> press alt enter for properties.
>>
>> click hardware control tab.
>>
>> highlight drive in list.
>>
>> click properties.
>>
>> click change settings.
>>
>> click control tab, Policies.
>>
>> check quick removal.
>>
>> click OK, OK.
>>
>> Once this setting has been changed, it should work for all USB
>> drives. However, when using a different USB drive for the first time,
>> it may be worth checking the quick removal box is still checked
>> using the instructions above.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 29/11/2010 11:22 AM, Don Smith wrote:
>> > With xp pro and win eyes 7.2, and using a thumb drive, I had the choice
>> > of stopping and doing a safe remove of the thumb drive.
>> > In windows 7 I can find no choice to do a safe remove of the thumb
>> > drive.
>> > So, I just pulled it out, and I am sure this is not a good idea.
>> > Any help in finding where the remove safe can be found?
>> > It does not come up in the sys tray.
>> > Thanks
>> > Don
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