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Thread ID: 55401 2005-03-09 22:19:00 USB Flash Pull Out Strommer (42) Press F1
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332403 2005-03-10 04:06:00 I have had 2 die on me after yankin them out, No idea if it was releated or if there time was just up.

One just refused to be detected on any comp,and the other would reduce in size by whatever sized file was put on it, It started at 256mb, if I put a 128mb file on it then moved to a different machine it would decide there were no files on the device and its total size was now 128mb.....Multiple formats didn't help, 		Metla (12)
332404 2005-03-10 06:04:00 Metla, are you pushing it for fun or do you have clearance to advertise or am I missing the joke?????? theother1 (3573)
332405 2005-03-10 06:20:00 Win 2k has the safely remove icon in the system tray as well, don't know about any other OS's, thought it was a driver thing not OS dependent.

AFAIK, the tradeF1 thing is sanctioned the same way chatF1 is. As long as it's not directly associated with PC World and IDG. 		Murray P (44)
332406 2005-03-10 06:30:00 Metla, are you pushing it for fun or do you have clearance to advertise or am I missing the joke??????
pressf1.pcworld.co.nz 		FoxyMX (5)
332407 2005-03-10 10:37:00 It's probably not a major problem (apart from the aggrieved messages from the OS) if you wait a reasonable time after the last operation you have used it in. All modern OSs write out all buffered stuff to disks regularly. ... Just don't pull a flash disk while its activity light is on.

Thanks to Graham and others for putting more geek :nerd: stuff in my head. It is a good feeling to be better informed. :D

I will take more care of my flash drive from now on.

By the way, I have assumed that these USB 2.0 flash drives will not work in Win98 / Win98SE / or WinME. It has to be Win2000 or XP, or Linux. Correct? How about WinXP flash memory being transferred to a Mac? 		Strommer (42)
332408 2005-03-10 10:51:00 I have a USB 2.0 flash drive working on Win98SE, it came with a CD which gave the OS the ability to run it. Win2K just worked. zqwerty (97)
332409 2005-03-10 12:42:00 Lemon Chiffon???

I say no more.


Muhahahahaha. 		Metla (12)
332410 2005-03-10 21:18:00 Having said that I admit that I usually do not bother, and have not yet been caught . I am aware of some that have lost the files however, and needed to reformat the device . Geez Godfather, I really didn't want to hear that . When I first got my USB flash drive I didn't bother stopping it before removing until I read your sage advice to do so many moons ago and now you're telling everyone you don't practice what you preach . :p



By the way, I have assumed that these USB 2 . 0 flash drives will not work in Win98 / Win98SE / or WinME . It has to be Win2000 or XP, or Linux . Correct? Rubbish . I use mine in every PC that has USB ports in it, whether Win 98, 98SE, ME, 2000 or XP . The older versions, eg 98, 98SE and ME require the drivers to be loaded from the supplied driver CD first though, but 2000 and XP just get on with reading the thing . My Fedora drive also has no problems with it .

It's magic . :) 		FoxyMX (5)
332411 2005-03-10 21:30:00 By default XP and I assume most other OSs are configured for "fast drive removal" or similar. This makes the drive slower, but it writes data as soon as it can, so that it doesn't matter so much when you do a "surprise" removal. Just like Graham said, wait for the activity light to stop flickering and it's all good. Jeremy (1197)
332412 2005-03-10 21:46:00 One little thing I discovered just the other day is that in Win XP you only need to left-click on the USB icon in the Tasktray then click on "Safely remove hardware" to get it removed . Previously I was right-clicking on the icon and choosing "Safely remove hardware" which brought up a window to choose which USB device to disable . This method involved five clicks whereas the former method has only two .

Trust me to be such a slow learner . :groan: 		FoxyMX (5)
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