Safely remove hardware

[Frank Rizzo]

Hello,

When I plug in an SD card into my laptop, I get a little "safely remove
hardware" in the systray. When I remove the card, can I just yank it
out of the slot, or do I have to right-click on the icon and "Stop" the
device?

Is it safe to just yank it out? Obviously, I am not doing any copying
when I am yanking it out.

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Daniel_Mart=EDn?=]

I recommend that you right-click on the icon and remove the hardware when Windows tells you (even if you are not copying any file). You can lose data if you suddenly unplug the card from the PC.

 

[Evolution54]

Hello,

When I plug in an SD card into my laptop, I get a little "safel
remove
hardware" in the systray. When I remove the card, can I just yank it
out of the slot, or do I have to right-click on the icon and "Stop
the
device?

Is it safe to just yank it out? Obviously, I am not doing any copying
when I am yanking it out.

Would always recommend you to use that feature when unpluggin
devices.

http://www.worldstart.com/tips/tips.php/160

 

[Stan Brown]

Hello,

When I plug in an SD card into my laptop, I get a little "safely remove
hardware" in the systray. When I remove the card, can I just yank it
out of the slot, or do I have to right-click on the icon and "Stop" the
device?

Is it safe to just yank it out? Obviously, I am not doing any copying
when I am yanking it out.

Check the documentation that came with the device. If there is none,
or if it doesn't say explicitly, then you're better off to use the
"remove" icon first. It doesn't take long.

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the
variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of
evolution is simply ignorant -- inexcusably ignorant, in a world
where three out of four people have learned to read and write."
--Daniel Dennett, /Darwin's Dangerous Idea/ (1995), page 46

 

[Darrell S]

Hello,

When I plug in an SD card into my laptop, I get a little "safely
remove hardware" in the systray. When I remove the card, can I just
yank it out of the slot, or do I have to right-click on the icon and
"Stop" the device?

Is it safe to just yank it out? Obviously, I am not doing any copying
when I am yanking it out.

As an added question. What if you don't want to remove it but just want to
power it off either with the device's own power switch or with a power strip
that it is plugged into?
For safety I use the "safely remove hardware" system for my external hard
drives but not my scanner, printer, and TV/video device. Any advice here?

 

[NotMe]

Double click the safely remove hardware icon.
It should present you with a list of USB devices.
If it's listed in the safely remove hardware list, I turn it off there
before removing it.
If it's not listed, I just unplug it as needed.

 

[The Cuddly Curmudgeon]

When I plug in an SD card into my laptop, I get a little "safely remove
hardware" in the systray. When I remove the card, can I just yank it
out of the slot, or do I have to right-click on the icon and "Stop" the
device?

Anal folks will use the "safely remove" thingee. That's not what USB
is all about. You are supposed to be able to connect/disconnect those
devices at will.

AND YOU CAN.

I NEVER use that, and have NEVER had a problem with
disconnecting/reconnecting a USB device.

I'll beT no one else here has either.

 

[Stan Brown]

Double click the safely remove hardware icon.
It should present you with a list of USB devices.

s/Double/Single/

--
Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems, Tompkins County, New York, USA
http://OakRoadSystems.com/
"To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the
variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of
evolution is simply ignorant -- inexcusably ignorant, in a world
where three out of four people have learned to read and write."
--Daniel Dennett, /Darwin's Dangerous Idea/ (1995), page 46

 

[Darrell S]

Anal folks will use the "safely remove" thingee. That's not what USB
is all about. You are supposed to be able to connect/disconnect those
devices at will.

AND YOU CAN.

I NEVER use that, and have NEVER had a problem with
disconnecting/reconnecting a USB device.

I'll beT no one else here has either.

This question wasn't about disconnecting/reconnecting USB devices. It was
about powering them on/off while remaining connected.