Hi, KeeKee.
In Disk Management (and a few other places in WinXP/Vista/Win7), we can set
Policies for removable devices to Optimize for either "Quick removal" or for
"Performance". Quick removal does not use caching, so it is almost always
safe to remove the device, without waiting for "safely remove".
There are several ways to run Disk Management. My favorite is to just press
or click Start, type "diskmgmt.msc" and press Enter. You'll need to furnish
Administrator credentials because this is a powerful utility that can do as
much harm as good if used carelessly.
In Disk Management, the lower part of the screen shows the Graphical View.
Each physical disk shows as a single graphic bar, divided into the volumes
on that disk. Right-click in the far left column (to choose the whole disk
and not just the single volume Drive H:, for example), choose Properties,
and then the Policies tab.
Even with Quick removal, do not unplug the disk until the light stops
blinking, because that means that the latest read or write operation has not
completed and your data can be lost or corrupted.
RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
Microsoft Windows MVP
Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64
"KeeKee" <> wrote in message
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> I have Windows XP and Vista.
>
> I always go through "safely remove hardware" before pulling off USB
> drive on XP. However, I have been trying to
> do the same on Vista, it seems that I cannot do the same as XP. For
> instance, I plug in my USB on Vista and it appears as H drive on
> Vista, when I am ready to do "safely remove hardware", I don't see the
> device drive H is on the "Safely remove hardware" window, so I cannot
> stop the H drive. I am concerned about the Vista hardware.
> Could anyone shed a light?
> Thanks in advance.
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