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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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| 332413 | 2005-03-10 21:49:00 | The older versions, eg 98, 98SE and ME require the drivers to be loaded from the supplied driver CD first though, Thanks for the useful info, Foxy. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 332414 | 2005-03-11 02:37:00 | W98 doesn't provide a safe remove icon for the USB device (though it has one for PC Card). But I rightclick on the Removable Disk device in My Computer, and use Eject. Same effect ... tells the system the device is to be removed, even though there isn't any little man to push the plug out. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 332415 | 2005-03-11 02:50:00 | W98 doesn't provide a safe remove icon for the USB device (though it has one for PC Card). But I rightclick on the Removable Disk device in My Computer, and use Eject. Same effect ... tells the system the device is to be removed, even though there isn't any little man to push the plug out. You're having us on, right? If there's no little man, who in hell has been gobbling up all the food and drink, including a bear after 4 oclock on a Friday, that I've been putting in the PC's food tray all these years (the Food Depositor & Dispensory)?? Come on smarty pants answer that one, I don't think you know what your talking about buddy. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 332416 | 2005-03-11 03:32:00 | There's the little man who opens the CD drawer in my W98 laptop,when I use Eject on the CD. But his union rules don't let him touch a USB connector. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 332417 | 2005-03-11 03:54:00 | ...who in hell has been gobbling up all the food and drink, including a bear .... Heard of being hungry enough to eat a horse, but a bear? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 332418 | 2005-03-11 04:35:00 | "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." Thanks from me too, FoxyMX, for that info.I've been having trouble with my card reader, which is seen as a drive,turning off as well as my outboard hard drive when I've used the 5 click method.Now it doesn't. |
Neil McC (178) | ||
| 332419 | 2005-03-11 06:06:00 | Must breed em tough down Wellington way. | Metla (12) | ||
| 332420 | 2005-03-11 07:37:00 | Must breed em tough down Wellington way. First we wrestle them, then we pop what's left of em in the wiz and suck em up with straws made out of blackberry canes :angry The thorns on the canes a real useful too for picking the fluffy bits out of your gullet :thumbs: Graham, you need to de-unionise your PC staff lad. Never managed to make it stick in Windows though, the blighters are always taking extended breaks, go slows and strikes :groan: |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 332421 | 2005-03-11 11:09:00 | "Safely remove hardware" And in Win2K as well, thanks for that info, I have spent a lot of time going through the aformentioned rigmarole. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 332422 | 2005-03-11 11:53:00 | 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? With 98 you need the drivers and they tend to be specific to the maker/model of the flash drive. This can confuse some people as they see others using their faslh drive but their one isn't recognised. Mac OS 8.5 or higher and OS X can all work just fine (assuming you format the usb drive with FAT). OS X will leave a trail of files like .DS_Store and sometimes ._filename. OS 9 gives you the joy of leaving folders such as TheVolumeSettingsFolder Network Trash and others. You just ignore them. Mac to Windows problems are usually mostly filenames with characters such as /?<> etc that are allowed on a Mac but Windows will reject them. OS 9 filenames tend to not have file extensions on them so adding them will allow windows to find an App to open them. Moving people from OS 9 to XP is a real pain when they have loads of files named "Meeting # 12/3/03" etc. Okay there are tools to rename them but they don't seem too stable :yuck: |
gibler (49) | ||
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