[Technical] safe removal of usb memory sticks

[Jim Maunder]

At 11:22 PM 28/02/2006, Kevin Ware wrote:


>Hi guys
>
>I have a questionabout the safe removal of memory sticks on a 
>windows xp system.  Do you need to click the small icon on the 
>taskbar to safely remove hardware.  After 1 year + of not following 
>this procedure my memory stick has an error and has stopped working.
>
>Is this a coincidence?


I advise our students to 'safely remove ...' USB memory sticks. 
Occasionally you will get a response from the machine saying 'Can't 
stop this device right now ... etc' so I guess sometimes there might 
be files open/being written to when I try to remove a stick. Likewise 
flash cards from cameras I right click on the device icon (in 
Explorer) and 'eject' it before pulling it out.

A coincidence? Maybe - but they are not 100% reliable IMHO. A couple 
of companies Mrs Techo has worked in use them as their only data 
backup medium. =-O






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