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Re; Safely Remove Hardware?
24-10-2008 3:11 AM
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I have Eight USB internal hard drives two of which (PATA) are in external cases and one (SATA) is in a docking station. All three are connected by USB and have their own power supplies.
Am I likely to lose data or even damage a drive simply by turning off the power to each? Obviously I close any application that may have been accessing any or all of the drives before turning the power off.
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Re: Re; Safely Remove Hardware?
24-10-2008 3:27 AM
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for those dual booting with linux, it's been reported that when not safely removed when in windows means that linux cannot find it. the solution is to reboot into windows, plug in the drive, safely remove and then linux will see it.
similarly, use software eject with cds/dvds. it lets the system know what's going on and prevents errors the next time the drive is used.
Re: Re; Safely Remove Hardware?
24-10-2008 11:32 PM
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Its naturally safer to do a safety remove
Re: Re; Safely Remove Hardware?
24-10-2008 11:38 PM
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My basic concern was not about data loss more about hard drive damage which hasn't been mentioned.
But I think I will use the 'Safely remove...' from now on.
Cheers.
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Re: Re; Safely Remove Hardware?
25-10-2008 5:05 PM
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Re: Re; Safely Remove Hardware?
26-10-2008 4:53 PM
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Its not hard work to click a mouse button a few times is it.
Re: Re; Safely Remove Hardware?
12-12-2008 12:00 PM
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If I am powering down the PC (rarely done) do I still have to click 'Safely remove hardware" first or are the necessary routines invoked by XP SP3 automatically at this stage?
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Re: Re; Safely Remove Hardware?
12-12-2008 1:09 PM
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13-12-2008 10:15 AM
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13-12-2008 11:07 AM
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13-12-2008 3:26 PM
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- Go to Control Panel->System->Hardware->Device Manager.
- Select the hard drive in the device manager list, right click and select properties.
- In the properties box, click the Policies tab. In this tab ensure "Optimize for quick removal" is checked. If this is checked, write caching is disabled and this means you don't need to use the Safe Removal icon.
- Repeat for all the relevant drives.
Re: Re; Safely Remove Hardware?
13-12-2008 3:36 PM
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But wouldn't that slow down disc access times when saving/loading files?
I suppose it a trade-off between the two.
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Re: Re; Safely Remove Hardware?
13-12-2008 3:55 PM
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I suppose you have to decide which is more important - "faster writing to the disk" and I've deliberately put that in quotes because cached writes still have to be really written out, or secure data.
Personally, having secure data is much more important than saving a few seconds now and again. I've always made a point of turning off write caching on hard drives - when I tell the computer to save something, I really mean I want it done now, and not when the OS gets around to it....
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