- SAFELY REMOVE HARDWARE
- Posted by Paul Koukos on May 16th, 2008
Why does this appear on the bottom side of my taskbar?
Can I ge rid of it?
- Posted by Ghostrider on May 16th, 2008
Paul Koukos wrote:
Sure...remove the jump drive or any other device that might be using
an USB or Firewire port.
- Posted by PaulB on May 16th, 2008
You probably have a card reader in your PC that uses USB ports.
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Paul
"Paul Koukos" wrote:
- Posted by PaulB on May 16th, 2008
Unless you uninstall the device, you can't get rid of it but you can hide it.
BTW if you select the icon to safely remove the device and it is a card
reader, you won't be able to use it until you reboot or have the computer
search for new hardware.
--
Paul
"Paul Koukos" wrote:
- Posted by Big Al on May 16th, 2008
Paul Koukos wrote:
you disconnect them.
Take it with a grain of salt.
I pull my usb drive out without stopping it with this tool. But some
devices suggest you stop them before removal.
- Posted by smlunatick on May 16th, 2008
The reason is one of the following:
1) A USB drive
2) Firewire drive
3) SATA / eSATA drive
These drive can be disconnected while the PC is still running Windows. As a
precaution, you need to tel Windows to complete any / all writes to the drive
and signal it for disconnection.
NOTE: SATA drives are internal drive but they have the possibility of being
disconnected while Windows ix running.
On 16/05/2008 Paul Koukos <PaulKoukos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
