Re: unmounted an external harddrive

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Hi ALev,
This is all by and by. The main (original) point is, there's no
way of ensuring no data loss if you were to physically pull out the USB plug
without first clicking on the "Safely Remove Hardware" button that appears
in your "Notification Area". "System Tray" "Left-End-of-your-Taskbar" or
whatever you want to call it. However, if you set the "Optimise for quick
removal" option on the device's "Properties" page, then you go a way to
reducing that risk. By how much is debatable. But, most importantly, you
should NEVER just pull out a USB removable storage device anyway, without
first clicking on this "Safely Remove Hardware" button first.
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Cheers, Tim Meddick, Peckham, London.



"Terry R." <F1Com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The date and time was Thursday, April 09, 2009 8:16:33 AM, and on a whim,
ALev pounded out on the keyboard:

Sorry for my ignorance, but where is the System Tray?

"Terry R." wrote:

The date and time was Thursday, April 09, 2009 6:33:05 AM, and on a
whim, ALev pounded out on the keyboard:
"Tim Meddick" wrote:

Hi ALev,
While you are able to physically "pull" out the USB
cable during a read/write operation, it will never be totally
failsafe. However, if you open the properties for the drive in Device
Manager and listed under the "Policies" tab will be "Optimize for
Quick removal" choose that option and the read/write operation times
will be minimized (rather than use disk caching that postpones data
transfers) so there is much less chance of errors if you did pull the
plug on the device as read/writes are performed at once.


"ALev" <ALev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

Is there a way I can mount or unmount an external harddrive connected
through a USB port to make sure that I don't remove it while
information is
being transferred?

But is there a way to completely eliminate the chance of errors? I know
that Knoppix, for example, allows you to right click on the disk drive
and then in a drop down box you can click "mount" or "unmount". Does
Windows XP have similar functionality?
Yes. In the System Tray you should see an icon that when hovered over
states, "Safely Remove Hardware". Clicking on it will give you a list of
items to disconnect. Double clicking will open the Device List.


Terry R.


The System Tray/Notification Area is where the clock usually shows, unless
one has it not shown by choice.


Terry R.
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