Odd Vista/USB behaviour.

Man of Honour
Joined
18 Oct 2002
Posts
43,193
Just spotted something odd with Vista.

With 98/2k/XP when you 'safely remove hardware' for a usb device it stops the device totally - Lights on usb pens go out, usb hdd's spin down.

Vista doesn't do this. So when I unplug my mp3 hdd player, the HDD is still spinning, same with the USB HDD's, same with USB sticks. Light stays on.

It's a bit concerning tbh. Data loss could be possible with the HDD's. :(

Sometimes I just want the mp3 player charging and not connected, on XP thats easy, plug it in then safely remove it. Still charges.

Hmmmm.

Simon/~Flibster
 
Back
Top Bottom