Safely eject usb in metro ui???
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I'm sure Windows 10 without a Desktop will have a solution for this. 
In then meantime experiment with "USB Disk Ejector" you can probably make shortcuts for drive letters and pin them to the Start Menu ....
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...ey-to-immediately-eject-a-specific-usb-drive/
In then meantime experiment with "USB Disk Ejector" you can probably make shortcuts for drive letters and pin them to the Start Menu ...
.http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/wind...ey-to-immediately-eject-a-specific-usb-drive/
ok thanks it will have to do for now I guess...:0(.... surely they would of thought of this...seems silly when a lot of premises behind surface is to make it as touch screen friendly as possible...
Found this also...
http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/win8/windows8-safely-remove-hardware.htm
Found this also...
http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/win8/windows8-safely-remove-hardware.htm
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I tried the rundll thingy and it didn't seem to work for me but that link with instructions for creating the shortcut with script is a keeper.
TBH I haven't used USB Disk Ejector but it was mentioned and linked to by multiple sites so I hope it works
You can use Explorer to Eject a device as well ...
TBH I haven't used USB Disk Ejector but it was mentioned and linked to by multiple sites so I hope it works
You can use Explorer to Eject a device as well ...
You do..otherwise you increase the risk of losing data...
spinachpie
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I kicked the cable whilst transferring some files from my old external USB drive to my SP3 and the entire thing just corrupted and lost all my old files
Did the same with my USB 3.0 WD external drive and nothing happened. I do always like to eject for safety though.
Did the same with my USB 3.0 WD external drive and nothing happened. I do always like to eject for safety though.
That might depend on the timing and possibly updating the Master File Table at that precise moment. File system resiliency technology may minimize that but by comparison I used to do DB support (one of my varied career moves back in the dark ages when equipment and power were not as reliable) on a system that had a very robust recovery mechanism and despite best efforts data loss was not always avoidable.I kicked the cable whilst transferring some files from my old external USB drive to my SP3 and the entire thing just corrupted and lost all my old files
Did the same with my USB 3.0 WD external drive and nothing happened. I do always like to eject for safety though.
"I do always like to eject for safety though" Always better safe than sorry.
Nope....The Windows USB Mass Storage Driver prevents this unless you remove it in the middle of a copy....this has been true since the NT 5.0 Kernel.
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