Timeline for Safely Removing Hardware is not working
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| Mar 20, 2017 at 10:17 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Sep 21, 2013 at 22:29 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | @DoktoroReichard - Any active I/O will be quiesced when the system sleeps -- all buffers will be flushed, etc. | |
| Sep 21, 2013 at 12:51 | comment | added | Doktoro Reichard | @Daniel In fact, it isn't safe, unless you can grant Explorer, any antivirus, or extrusive program like Excel isn't using any of your files in there. | |
| Sep 21, 2013 at 12:50 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | (Note that the above may not be safe if the drive is "optimized for speed" rather than "quick removal".) | |
| Sep 21, 2013 at 12:43 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | I finally gave up on trying to "safely remove" the backup drive from my laptop USB port (Windows Vista). Now I sleep the laptop and then wait 10 seconds until I hear the drive power off, then unplug. (Note that, perversely, the drive must be turned on for this to work. If not it tends to power up when you sleep the box, so I reference the drive if need be to turn its power light on.) | |
| Sep 21, 2013 at 12:38 | history | edited | Augustus Francis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 21, 2013 at 12:36 | comment | added | Yass | @AugustusFrancis - Oh ok. As Doktoro has mentioned, there will probably be some process started by the drive, which isn't being closed. | |
| Sep 21, 2013 at 12:32 | history | edited | Augustus Francis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 21, 2013 at 12:32 | comment | added | Augustus Francis | I am using Win8. @DoktoroReichard. And I could tell if the deed is done..:).. But it is not | |
| Sep 21, 2013 at 12:31 | comment | added | Augustus Francis | Thanks @yassarikhan786 .Yes, The removable disk is still there.. Well there is a difference between safely remove and eject | |
| Sep 21, 2013 at 12:30 | comment | added | Doktoro Reichard | What kind of Windows do you mention? In Windows XP and in Windows 7 the dialog appears as a notification on the taskbar below, on Vista it is a little window that appears on the center of the display. | |
| Sep 21, 2013 at 12:29 | answer | added | Doktoro Reichard | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 21, 2013 at 12:24 | comment | added | Yass | Have you tried the Eject option? | |
| Sep 21, 2013 at 12:23 | history | asked | Augustus Francis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |