USB Safely Remove free licence....

Ratbag · 21 Aug 2009 at 07:35

Just thought this might come in handy for some people.....

Ross1234 · 21 Aug 2009 at 07:38

But what does it do

Ratbag · 21 Aug 2009 at 07:49

Go here and peruse the features. Nothing particularly exciting, but could come in handy if you have a few usb devices.

bad_ass_neil · 21 Aug 2009 at 11:18

i just rip my usb keys out,
never failed me in the 4 odd years i have been doing it.

doran1801 · 21 Aug 2009 at 12:30

bad_ass_neil said:
i just rip my usb keys out,
never failed me in the 4 odd years i have been doing it.

same here

Aod · 21 Aug 2009 at 13:11

bad_ass_neil said:
i just rip my usb keys out,
never failed me in the 4 odd years i have been doing it.

the only time when you NEED to Safely remove is when you're running on Windows 2000, or your drive is formatted in NTFS.

mrk · 21 Aug 2009 at 13:24

But what's the point of formatting a large (over 40GB) USB drive in FAT32 when the largest filesize supported by FAT32 is 4GB anyway?

Plus data integrity is much better in NTFS volumes.

bledd · 21 Aug 2009 at 13:26

with usb keys, as long as it's not windows 2000 and the lights aren't flashing, just rip it out

Kennysevenfold · 21 Aug 2009 at 13:36

bad_ass_neil said:
i just rip my usb keys out,
never failed me in the 4 odd years i have been doing it.

This

Aod · 21 Aug 2009 at 14:09

mrk said:
But what's the point of formatting a large (over 40GB) USB drive in FAT32 when the largest filesize supported by FAT32 is 4GB anyway?

Plus data integrity is much better in NTFS volumes.

you're absolutely right, but 32 and 64GB usb keys are still quite uncommon.
i'm sure that when they're more affordable, and thus more common, many people will format them as NTFS (or exFAT

)

also, window's built-in safely remove works really well. the mistake most people make is double-clicking on it, which brings up an annoying menu.

single clicking brings up a temporary box, and then clicking once on the drive you want to eject stop it so it's safe.

Django x2 · 21 Aug 2009 at 16:51

Eh? I have a 16gb Fat32 usb drive sat here formatted in fat32 and almost full

Mattus · 21 Aug 2009 at 17:48

Lucero said:
Eh? I have a 16gb Fat32 usb drive sat here formatted in fat32 and almost full

4GB file size, not volume size

dbmzk1 · 22 Aug 2009 at 00:45

Don't know ANYONE who EVER safely removes them. I know I never have, or my USB hard drive come to think of it, just rip it out. No one I know has ever had any problems.

5abr3 · 22 Aug 2009 at 01:05

I had a 32MB drive in 2001 and if you whipped it out without safely removing it formatted the partition, found that out the hard way

New ones seem fine so long as the lights have stopped flashing for a few seconds before taking them out of the system though.

Amp34 · 22 Aug 2009 at 01:11

dbmzk1 said:
Don't know ANYONE who EVER safely removes them. I know I never have, or my USB hard drive come to think of it, just rip it out. No one I know has ever had any problems.

I knew someone who did, he swore it would leave loads of drives that weren't actually used any more... He taught IT for a few years as well...

I just wait til it stops flashing and pull it out. Never had any problems...

Slinky1989 · 22 Aug 2009 at 01:16

Whip it out here (oo-err!). But I've found that people who aren't computer savvy think that if they don't remove it safely, it'll cause their computer to explode. My mother once literally screamed when I pulled out a USB stick about a year ago; she still didn't believe me when I explained it's fine and I've never had an issue :-/

deadite66 · 22 Aug 2009 at 11:48

great :tup:

its useful for me on win7, esata hotplug doesn't work properly but if i install the jmicron drivers it kills the built-in safely remove traytool.

zzzJonny · 22 Aug 2009 at 12:17

Aod said:
also, window's built-in safely remove works really well. the mistake most people make is double-clicking on it, which brings up an annoying menu.

single clicking brings up a temporary box, and then clicking once on the drive you want to eject stop it so it's safe.

Useful information this. I used the built in safely remove on a dodgy drive I used to have, but mainly just pull it out.

I'm sure there's a Windows option for fast removal or something which is on by default, in XP at least.

the_running_man · 22 Aug 2009 at 12:32

gads said:
Useful information this. I used the built in safely remove on a dodgy drive I used to have, but mainly just pull it out.

I'm sure there's a Windows option for fast removal or something which is on by default, in XP at least.

Yeah in device properties you can set for quick removal or performance. Think default is normally quick removal.