Re: All-in-One Card Reader : Safely Remove Hardware

Good morning Bill,

I spent some additional time playing around with the Memory Stick Pro card
yesterday afternoon.

The EJECT tool, as you say, is now my preferred method of finishing the task
at hand and then safely extracting the card from the "All-In-One" card
reader device. When I first used the Eject tool, I actually expected the
card to be physically ejected from the card reader slot. How silly of me
eh! I sat there watching the card sitting there watching me doing nothing.

I shouldn't be too hard on myself though. My VCR machine ejects the tape
cassette. My CD player ejects the CD and my DVD-RAM drive ejects the disc.
Why should I then not expect the card reader to eject the media card?

Anyway, I think I now have a handle on this whole Safely Remove Hardware
thing. Still a tad amused as to the many differing opinions that I
encountered, even from the supplier of my computer and a techie at a local
computer repair facility. Seemingly Windows, in it's various forms, can
still function despite our manipulations of it. I'm therefore very grateful
for the assistance offered by yourself and the other posters in this group.

Thank you everyone!

Richard,
Surrey, BC, Canada

"BillW50" <BillW50@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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But "Safely Remove Hardware" also disables card readers and PC to USB
cards too. Very bad if you have built in card readers which you can't
unplug. Then you have to reboot to get the device working once again.

Better is to open Explorer and on the drive you want to remove, right
click and choose Eject. All writes are written as well and you will get a
warning if you can't unplug it. And by using Eject, card readers, PC Card
to USB cards, etc. are still seen as active devices and you don't have to
unplug (if possible) or reboot to get them working once again.

See the difference now?

Bill


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