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JohnB
The "Safely Remove Hardware" utility that sits in the System Tray.... does
anyone use that?
I have never used it. But recently a couple things came up that made me
wonder if I should be using it. A couple weeks ago I was at someone's
laptop and I had plugged in and later removed my USB pen drive. He
commented that I should be using the SRH utility "because he had burned up a
USB pen drive by *not* using it". I have several of those drives and have
never had an issue... and like I said, I've never used that utility to
disconnect a USB device before unplugging it.
But today I had unplugged a Maxtor OneTouch external USB drive - and did not
use the SRH utility. When I plugged a different Maxtor OneTouch drive into
the same machine, Windows didn't recognize it. I tried several different
USB ports... same thing. So I used the SRH utility to *Stop* the USB mass
storage device in there. Then I plugged the drive in, and Windows
recognized it.
Just wondering what other people say about this utility, and if you use it.
I've always been under the impression USB devices were hot-swappable and
didn't require any user-intervention, such as using that utility
TIA
anyone use that?
I have never used it. But recently a couple things came up that made me
wonder if I should be using it. A couple weeks ago I was at someone's
laptop and I had plugged in and later removed my USB pen drive. He
commented that I should be using the SRH utility "because he had burned up a
USB pen drive by *not* using it". I have several of those drives and have
never had an issue... and like I said, I've never used that utility to
disconnect a USB device before unplugging it.
But today I had unplugged a Maxtor OneTouch external USB drive - and did not
use the SRH utility. When I plugged a different Maxtor OneTouch drive into
the same machine, Windows didn't recognize it. I tried several different
USB ports... same thing. So I used the SRH utility to *Stop* the USB mass
storage device in there. Then I plugged the drive in, and Windows
recognized it.
Just wondering what other people say about this utility, and if you use it.
I've always been under the impression USB devices were hot-swappable and
didn't require any user-intervention, such as using that utility
TIA