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Safely Remove Hardware
What is the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in my system
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Safely Remove Hardware
this is for use with external devices such as pc cards on laptops and
usb/firewire external hard drives. essentially, this feature stops the hardware device so that you may use it. e.g. - if you have an external usb/firewire hard drive and have write-caching enabled, just unplugging the device without stopping it could result in data loss if the cached versions of files have not been written to the disk yet. usually there is no problem with neglecting to stop a hot-swappable device before unplugging it, but it is always best to do so. Dan DeStefano "Pete" wrote in message ... What is the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in my system tray for? How do I use this function? Why do I need it? |
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Safely Remove Hardware
You can also use it to safely remove digital cameras.
-- Joli Ballew Author of Windows XP Professional - The Ultimate Users Guide NEW EDITION! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg...glance&s=books Purchase my XP E-books at www.expert-guides.com "Dan DeStefano" ddestefanoATwinmarcompaniesDOTcom wrote in message ... this is for use with external devices such as pc cards on laptops and usb/firewire external hard drives. essentially, this feature stops the hardware device so that you may use it. e.g. - if you have an external usb/firewire hard drive and have write-caching enabled, just unplugging the device without stopping it could result in data loss if the cached versions of files have not been written to the disk yet. usually there is no problem with neglecting to stop a hot-swappable device before unplugging it, but it is always best to do so. Dan DeStefano "Pete" wrote in message ... What is the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon in my system tray for? How do I use this function? Why do I need it? |
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