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Safely remove your usb stick or not?

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by kavsek 2 views

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I always pull out my usb stick without using the option for safe removal and I never lost any data. The usb stick is hotplug so it can be treated like that.

What do you prefer?

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by ontheropes

Can you be a bit more specific. I don't want to read several pages of a blog just to find and guess at the point you're trying to make.

The data-gods must be on my side because I haven't lost anything and I've been plugging and unplugging USB drives like that for years now.

by the scummy one

cause I have lost data (wiped the drive) after doing that before. However, I still rarely use the safely remove option anyway (it only happened once).

by 1bn0

I have personally corrupt a 1GB SD card in a USB card reader that way. I have also dealt with a couple of other USB flash memeroy devices used by other employees that have been corruptred the same way.

I managed to salvage the contents of the SD card. I tried a dozen utilities. The only one that was completely success, restoring files AND directories , was Active Partition Recovery.

by ---tk---

I have corrupted a flash drive too... I wasn't able to recover anything. But this was a couple years ago, when a 256 MB was big... I now use the safely remove hardware button, I figure its better to be safe than sorry...

by charliespencer

I've had a couple of cases where I had problems with the stick afterward. I think it depends mostly on the brand of stick.

by neon samurai

With Unix systems that's just what one is supposed to do being meant for multi-user environments. On Windows I've had USB drives eaten for not unmounting also though too so always try to "safely remove" first. If it's locked by somethign and your windows are all closed, shutdown/reboot if you can and pop the drive out while the system is rolling over and hast the drive powered off.

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