Solve : Remove thumb drives quickly?

1.	Solve : Remove thumb drives quickly?
Answer» A program that allows you to quickly remove USB devices in Windows. It was originally designed to remove only USB pen drives but will now eject any USB device.You probably have several thumb drives. They're great for toting around your documents. Not only are thumb drives convenient, they're more durable than CDs and floppy discs. Still, you need to remove them correctly from the USB port. Windows has the Safely Remove Hardware option. But this is cumbersome. You get several dialog boxes before you can eject a drive. And then there's the aggravating message you get when the drive is ready to be removed. It’s especially useful when dealing with multiple USB devices and for Vista users who don’t want the ‘now SAFE to remove this device’ dialog box to appear. http://quick.mixnmojo.com/usb-disk-ejectorAn easier way to remove them, is to take your thumb and your index finger and pull the drive out of the usb port. The cool thing about this method, is you don't need software to remove it, thus taking up less disk space. Okay, now seriously who uses the "safely remove hardware" anyways? In Windows 98, it was necessary because it would crash your computer, but it doesn't hurt XP and Vista and it doesn't hurt the drive. Quote from: michaewlewis on May 22, 2008, 09:41:56 AM Okay, now seriously who uses the "safely remove hardware" anyways? In Windows 98, it was necessary because it would crash your computer, but it doesn't hurt XP and Vista and it doesn't hurt the drive. I did know a guy who "burned out" his thumb drive by removing it while data was still being transferred to/from the drive. He was using XP. In Linux you definitely would want to "safely eject" the drive (so it can unmount) before removing it. One advantage that Linux has over XP is that when you INSERT a thumb drive, it puts an icon on your desktop screen for quick access and easy removal. Does Vista do this?I thought it was common sense that you don't pull out a flash drive while it's reading/writing... What's the point of copying something to the drive if you don't even let it finish copying? I don't usually use the safely eject function in linux, either. No problems here. Again, we seem to be stuck on the assumption that since the old versions of windows had problems, we still can't do it.See how many "RAW" references there are here and other Forums...a direct result of not using "Safely Remove Hardware". I was copying a folder (about 500MB) to my flash drive but half way through, I unplugged it thinking it was finished and my flash drive got so screwed up I needed to reformat it. The safely remove feature in Windows would stop you from EJECTING when the drive is still in use.Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on May 22, 2008, 11:50:25 PM I was copying a folder (about 500MB) to my flash drive but half way through, I unplugged it thinking it was finished and my flash drive got so screwed up I needed to reformat it. The safely remove feature in Windows would stop you from ejecting when the drive is still in use. it was half-way through and you thought it was finished Win98 wouldn't crash, it would show a Blue Screen but would bring it back to life.It's really nice to see just how forgiving we are of each others' opinions and mistakes, as if none of us ever make them or have them. I can easily see how someone would accidentally unplug a flash drive. I don't find the dialog boxes or unmounting in Linux to be all that cumbersome in view of the benefits I get from have gigabytes of storage info at my literal fingertips. How quickly we've forgotten floppy disks, once the acme of portable storage.i once unplugged m flash drive it wasnt copying anything to it or wasnt being used at all and i unplugged it then put it in my sis' laptop because she needed it for her report for school or something and it needed reformatted. i shoulda just ejected it instead of just pullin it out Quote from: Aegis on May 26, 2008, 05:11:17 PM It's really nice to see just how forgiving we are of each others' opinions and mistakes, as if none of us ever make them or have them. I can easily see how someone would accidentally unplug a flash drive. I don't find the dialog boxes or unmounting in Linux to be all that cumbersome in view of the benefits I get from have gigabytes of storage info at my literal fingertips. How quickly we've forgotten floppy disks, once the acme of portable storage. No, What I meant was if the progress bar was only 50%, how can that be finished? I know Write-Caching really screws stuff up too, so the ejection process is very useful for flushing any write buffers. I think it's somewhat strange that damage occurs to the filesystem when removed without ejection, even without doing anything, but it happens . Doesn't happen with floppies unless they are in use, so what is accessing the Drive that makes a eject necessary?OK, I get what you're saying...maybe the progress bar got lost...Quote from: BC_Programmer on May 26, 2008, 04:34:18 PM it was half-way through and you thought it was finished I went to the wrong window, thinking it was finished. It was also the end of the lesson so I was in a hurry...Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on May 27, 2008, 02:55:20 AM Quote from: BC_Programmer on May 26, 2008, 04:34:18 PM it was half-way through and you thought it was finished I went to the wrong window, thinking it was finished. It was also the end of the lesson so I was in a hurry... Ah OK. Now I understand I remember back in School I kept all my stuff on a 256MB USB drive. Inevitably my laptop would hang when copying data to/from the drive SOMETIMES. Then, at some point, I went to open my project, and it said the file was missing (project file). So I decide I have to make the project file again, no biggie. I try to navigate to the folder, and it is gone! everything else seems intact at a glance, but upon further inspection I discover that every single file is only 4K in length. Alright, So I run chkdsk on it. Strangely it finds over 1 Gig of lost fragments... only makes the amount it could fit. So I copy that file off the flash drive, stream them all into one file, and begin reconsituting the code- it contains all the data of every file on the disk after the first 4K. I actually MANAGED to salvage one of my larger projects, but the one I was working on only had the logo left. It didn't really matter anyway because the hard drive I copied it all over to was screwed by accidentally sending a CD-RW firmware upgrade to the HD instead of the CD-RW. Wow. Congrats. Sounds complex...

Answer»
A program that allows you to quickly remove USB devices in Windows. It was originally designed to remove only USB pen drives but will now eject any USB device.You probably have several thumb drives. They're great for toting around your documents.

Not only are thumb drives convenient, they're more durable than CDs and floppy discs. Still, you need to remove them correctly from the USB port.

Windows has the Safely Remove Hardware option. But this is cumbersome. You get several dialog boxes before you can eject a drive. And then there's the aggravating message you get when the drive is ready to be removed.

It’s especially useful when dealing with multiple USB devices and for Vista users who don’t want the ‘now SAFE to remove this device’ dialog box to appear.

http://quick.mixnmojo.com/usb-disk-ejectorAn easier way to remove them, is to take your thumb and your index finger and pull the drive out of the usb port. The cool thing about this method, is you don't need software to remove it, thus taking up less disk space.

Okay, now seriously who uses the "safely remove hardware" anyways? In Windows 98, it was necessary because it would crash your computer, but it doesn't hurt XP and Vista and it doesn't hurt the drive. Quote from: michaewlewis on May 22, 2008, 09:41:56 AM

Okay, now seriously who uses the "safely remove hardware" anyways? In Windows 98, it was necessary because it would crash your computer, but it doesn't hurt XP and Vista and it doesn't hurt the drive.

I did know a guy who "burned out" his thumb drive by removing it while data was still being transferred to/from the drive. He was using XP.

In Linux you definitely would want to "safely eject" the drive (so it can unmount) before removing it. One advantage that Linux has over XP is that when you INSERT a thumb drive, it puts an icon on your desktop screen for quick access and easy removal. Does Vista do this?I thought it was common sense that you don't pull out a flash drive while it's reading/writing... What's the point of copying something to the drive if you don't even let it finish copying?
I don't usually use the safely eject function in linux, either. No problems here. Again, we seem to be stuck on the assumption that since the old versions of windows had problems, we still can't do it.See how many "RAW" references there are here and other Forums...a direct result of not using "Safely Remove Hardware".
I was copying a folder (about 500MB) to my flash drive but half way through, I unplugged it thinking it was finished and my flash drive got so screwed up I needed to reformat it.
The safely remove feature in Windows would stop you from EJECTING when the drive is still in use.Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on May 22, 2008, 11:50:25 PM

I was copying a folder (about 500MB) to my flash drive but half way through, I unplugged it thinking it was finished and my flash drive got so screwed up I needed to reformat it.
The safely remove feature in Windows would stop you from ejecting when the drive is still in use.

it was half-way through and you thought it was finished

Win98 wouldn't crash, it would show a Blue Screen but would bring it back to life.It's really nice to see just how forgiving we are of each others' opinions and mistakes, as if none of us ever make them or have them.

I can easily see how someone would accidentally unplug a flash drive.

I don't find the dialog boxes or unmounting in Linux to be all that cumbersome in view of the benefits I get from have gigabytes of storage info at my literal fingertips.

How quickly we've forgotten floppy disks, once the acme of portable storage.i once unplugged m flash drive it wasnt copying anything to it or wasnt being used at all and i unplugged it then put it in my sis' laptop because she needed it for her report for school or something and it needed reformatted. i shoulda just ejected it instead of just pullin it out Quote from: Aegis on May 26, 2008, 05:11:17 PM

It's really nice to see just how forgiving we are of each others' opinions and mistakes, as if none of us ever make them or have them.

I can easily see how someone would accidentally unplug a flash drive.

I don't find the dialog boxes or unmounting in Linux to be all that cumbersome in view of the benefits I get from have gigabytes of storage info at my literal fingertips.

How quickly we've forgotten floppy disks, once the acme of portable storage.

No, What I meant was if the progress bar was only 50%, how can that be finished? I know Write-Caching really screws stuff up too, so the ejection process is very useful for flushing any write buffers.

I think it's somewhat strange that damage occurs to the filesystem when removed without ejection, even without doing anything, but it happens . Doesn't happen with floppies unless they are in use, so what is accessing the Drive that makes a eject necessary?OK, I get what you're saying...maybe the progress bar got lost...Quote from: BC_Programmer on May 26, 2008, 04:34:18 PM

it was half-way through and you thought it was finished

I went to the wrong window, thinking it was finished. It was also the end of the lesson so I was in a hurry...Quote from: Carbon Dudeoxide on May 27, 2008, 02:55:20 AM

Quote from: BC_Programmer on May 26, 2008, 04:34:18 PM
it was half-way through and you thought it was finished
I went to the wrong window, thinking it was finished. It was also the end of the lesson so I was in a hurry...

Ah OK. Now I understand

I remember back in School I kept all my stuff on a 256MB USB drive. Inevitably my laptop would hang when copying data to/from the drive SOMETIMES. Then, at some point, I went to open my project, and it said the file was missing (project file). So I decide I have to make the project file again, no biggie. I try to navigate to the folder, and it is gone! everything else seems intact at a glance, but upon further inspection I discover that every single file is only 4K in length.

Alright, So I run chkdsk on it. Strangely it finds over 1 Gig of lost fragments... only makes the amount it could fit. So I copy that file off the flash drive, stream them all into one file, and begin reconsituting the code- it contains all the data of every file on the disk after the first 4K. I actually MANAGED to salvage one of my larger projects, but the one I was working on only had the logo left. It didn't really matter anyway because the hard drive I copied it all over to was screwed by accidentally sending a CD-RW firmware upgrade to the HD instead of the CD-RW.

Wow. Congrats. Sounds complex...

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