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    Actually you can't! You'll hear the drive click. But if it's ejected the click doesn't happen. I don't know if that matters, but I've had problems with two external hard-drives (drive appeared unformatted), I suspect it was because of such shutdowns...
    – Alex
    Commented Oct 9, 2013 at 2:24
  • @Alex If you shut a computer down, it can't be using a drive if it doesn't have any power. Commented Nov 2, 2014 at 14:49
  • Shutting down the system was my solution until chkdsk started finding errors after doing that. Commented Jul 20, 2016 at 21:17
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    @RockPaperLizard Then there's something wrong with the software. The OS told the program that it's shutting down, it still didn't flush writes and close the file. There's nothing you can do at that point besides smack the developer on the head.
    – davidtgq
    Commented Jan 7, 2017 at 16:20