-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Hibernation and USB drives
- From: Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:12:02 -0500
That's exactly right. It's not the device that will have problems. It's
the data that had not yet been written to that device that will be lost.
And if part of the data had been written, but not yet finalized, it will
also mess up the data that IS on the device. I once discovered that this
can even affect some of the data on the device that was not even a part of
what had been accessed during that session.
Peace,
Gman
"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
http://www.bornagainamerican.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Disastar" <disastar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 2:34 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Hibernation and USB drives
> Although its possible, I don't really know if the USB device could get
> confused under that circumstance. The reason (or at least the main
> reason)
> for the "Safely Remove Hardware" is, as you stated, to make sure any
> outstanding write caches have been saved before removing the device. As
> far
> as I know the biggest problem with skipping "Safely Remove Hardware" is
> that
> you could have data loss, which is never good. ;)
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