Myth: Safely Remove Your Pen Drive !
Posted: Friday, December 10, 2010 by vamsi satyavarapu inMany of my fellow readers will be computer addicts, if not then certainly be knowing basics about computer.
Here is one of the myths that i believed in until i found the reason behind it…..
Here is one of the myths that i believed in until i found the reason behind it…..
Now, it isn’t one of the greatest tricks but definitely will save you a lot of time !
I will start by asking you a simple question, How do you eject a pen drive from a computer ?
I will start by asking you a simple question, How do you eject a pen drive from a computer ?
Most of you will be following the USUAL procedure of right clicking on taskbar and clicking on “Safely remove Hardware “.
Then you will press stop and then Ok.
Thereafter,a message will appear saying “The USB mass storage drive can now be safely removed from the system “.
After seeing this message you will feel content and hence remove pen drives or external hard disksor ipods or whatever from the usb port.
Then you will press stop and then Ok.
Thereafter,a message will appear saying “The USB mass storage drive can now be safely removed from the system “.
After seeing this message you will feel content and hence remove pen drives or external hard disksor ipods or whatever from the usb port.
Having said that, I would like to point out 2 things here :
- Firstly, this is a myth that if while ejecting your pen drive you don’t follow the above procedure, your pen drive will be damaged or data will be corrupted.
The truth is, It is totally safe to remove your pen drive directly.
Secondly, If you have a habit of using the conventional procedure and are hesitant to change, then here is a small trick for you.
You need to open the taskbar, press right click then immediately follow it with a left click. You will get a message “Safely remove USB mass storage device “.
Click on it and you are done !!
No need to press stop and then ok !!!
Now, for all those wondering Now, why the above mentioned conventional procedure is followed then here is the reason :
Safely removing button ensures that no data transfer is currently taking place between your PC and the drive. If transfer is taking place then it does not let you remove your drive by giving the error message “This generic volume cannot be stopped now “.
So the point is that if after transferring your files you are sure that no other transfer is under way then you can directly remove your drive.
This is completely safe.
Safely removing button ensures that no data transfer is currently taking place between your PC and the drive. If transfer is taking place then it does not let you remove your drive by giving the error message “This generic volume cannot be stopped now “.
So the point is that if after transferring your files you are sure that no other transfer is under way then you can directly remove your drive.
This is completely safe.
If you still think the conventional method is better and ‘safe’, then please let me know why, and i'm love to hear from you !
Just wanted to say, I have lost quite a bit of data by just pulling out my usb drive. Sometimes it pays to do the extra step