Safely remove hardware

J

Jeff

Whenever I attach my USB flashdrive the 'safely remove hardware' icon shows
up. I thought that flash drives are hot switchable. What are the risk of
removing the flash drive without first making it safe through the icon?

Thanks.

Jeff
 
B

Bob I

Corrupting it, rendering the contents inaccesable(unreadable) at best,
destroying the drives write capability at worst.
 

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