Can you just pull out a Thumb Drive?

[1Chris]

I have a "Thumb Drive," Flash Drive,'" "removeable storage" or whatever you want to call it (little 128mb thing you put into a USB and use it as "equle to 88 floppys"). After I put a file on it I just pull it out. I was reading in a review on the net that you can't juist pull them out. You have to (can't remember exatly) do somethng before you pull them out. Like right click and chose something. Can you just pull these drives out? How come it didn't say anything in the instructions about this? Have you read or heard anything about this? Thank you, Chris.

[Midknyte]

just click on the green arrow icon on the bottom and click "safely remove ...........". You don't have to , but it's a safety precaution so that you don't lose any data.

[1Chris]

I didn't see a green icon. Where is it at?

[1Chris]

I just put the drive in and did see in the system trey an icon that said, 'Safely remove." Thanks for replying, Chris.

[dajogejr]

As MK said..."Safely Remove"

W2k will warn you if you do it. XP just beeps.

I've never had a thumb drive lose data either way...YET.

I do stop it in W2K, though...

[Midknyte]

as long as you're not dumb enough to pull out the drive during a data transfer, you should be ok. doing the "safe" removal routine also clears any cached files for that drive.

[dajogejr]

Fine point...MK.

I guess you have to be smart enough to wait until the car is in park before you open the door and step out....

[Midknyte]

You can also try the flash drive manager in the MS partner pack:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/par...px?prereq=true

[dajogejr]

Mk...got a thread regarding Ghost 2003 in the drives & Storage forum...hoping you'd head on over and help...thanks...

Edit...

Doh, I'm in there. I meant apps and operating systems...double Doh...

[1Chris]

Thanks, I don't use ie tho. I've used FireFox since V. 0.7

[tweakerpc]

You can do it, but i would not reccomand it becuase it might damage it in the long run!

[herosrest]

The green icon appears on the Task bar.



l just aquired an IBM 256mb USB Mem Key that was 'defective' showing only 24mb of storage. Cost zero.

Turns out the remaining 230 megs were set aside as a secure passworded partition.