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Following up on last week's guide to creating a shortcut to Windows' Safely Remove Hardware dialog, the How-To Geek weblog details how to set up a shortcut or hotkey to immediately eject a specific ...

This is one of those questions that has a short answer and a long answer. The short answer is this: you should probably always eject a drive before removing it, even if the context menu doesn't have ...

When you plug in a USB drive into your Windows desktop or laptop, the system, mounts the drive and uses the contents. Either the files are scanned by an antivirus or the storage is being indexed by ...

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Ask PC Gamer is our weekly question and advice column. Have a burning question about the smoke coming out of your PC? Send your problems to [email protected]. Is it necessary to "eject" a USB flash ...

This has followed users through the years, leading to many picking up the habit of always ejecting their drives before removing them, with the fear that if they do not, it could cause devastating ...

Several users have experienced an issue in which an attached FireWire or USB drive will not eject. Instead, an error message pops up claiming the drive cannot be ...

A command-line utility to safely unmount and poweroff USB mass-storage devices. A bash script that mimics the behavior of “Safely Remove USB Drive” in modern Linux Desktops. It unmounts all partitions ...