Safely remove Hardware - useful or not?
Connected to the Computer Hardware, such as USB Sticks, memory cards and external hard drives should generally be to remove the function of "Hardware" from the PC separately.
- What happens: you Do that and pull out the USB Stick from the Computer, it can lead to loss of data. As long as you don't remove the Hardware safely, the Computer has access to these and can, under certain circumstances, still in the Writing process.
- How to do it: Is connected to an external Hardware to your Computer, will appear at the bottom right of the taskbar, the icon of a USB stick bar (see image). You right-click on this it will show all the available devices. Select the desired USB memory Stick, you will receive a message that the Hardware is safely removed.
- Example: Plug a USB Stick into your Computer, copy a Word document on this and pull out the Stick, then again, will occur in the case of a data loss. You have opened the file, however, shortly before, and then overwritten, it can lead to quick removal to a loss of data.
- External hard drives with external hard drives may not be waived on the safe Remove. Pull it out just so from your Computer, this is comparable to a crash of your computer. This is also not just from electricity, but use the function "shutdown".
- Conclusion: Even if most of the users holding the function to be superfluous, is safe is safe. In the case of USB Sticks, if errors occur in the rarest of cases. However, it can always happen that a file the process is still in the Writing. In the case of external disks, the safely Remove is a.
USB memory Stick safe to remove
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