According to Kim Komando, you need to use the "safely remove hardware)
function in the system tray before disconnecting external hard
drives. However, according to someone on the APH staff, just who escapes
me right now, you don't need to do that with the Bookport.
At 09:30 PM 6/24/2006, you wrote:
One of the cool things about Windows XP is that once the Bookport is done receiving files, one can immediately unplug it from the USB cable without fear of losing cached data as in Windows 2000.
On the other hand, I lost a partition for an external drive two or three times, and the Maxtor people told me that "especially with xp" one should always use the "safely remove hardware" option in the system tray before unplugging their drive as it may not have been provided the latest partition by Windows and may thus lose the table if unplugged even though the backup or whatever is long over.
OK, you brains, which is it? Should you be able to unplug an external drive immediately in xp such as the bookport, or must one really always use the "safely remove hardware" option as stated by the Maxtor people.
The person with the answer which seems the truest will get my undying gratitude. Thanks all.
Don Barrett
