Gaming Do you safely remove?

[Satangel]

I didn't even know something like 'safely removing' exists.
I just always pulled my USB-sticks, iPod,... out the PC.

That again proves your intelligence.

 

[raulpica]

I never do and never did.

I believe is prolly useless (unless you remove a drive when writing, and btw, I also did that sometimes and everything is still fine)

 

[Rod]

But of course! Thankfully I learned about the safely removal procedure even before I had a computer, when a friend of mine told he lost his MP3 because his cousin kept unplugging unsafely... otherwise, I might have learned it the hard way. =P

 

[Egonny]

I didn't even know something like 'safely removing' exists.
I just always pulled my USB-sticks, iPod,... out the PC.

That again proves your intelligence.

Sure, did i ever have a problem?
Guess not.
Then again that icon is not in my tray bar most of the time.
But just for you i'll start safely removing.

 

[Taza]

Safe remove / umount. Always.

Anyone who doesn't is a moron who knows nothing about computers.

... sure, there *are* times when you can just unplug and ways to fix the corruption, but none of those occur during normal usage.

 

[raulpica]

Safe remove / umount. Always.

Anyone who doesn't is a moron who knows nothing about computers.

... sure, there *are* times when you can just unplug and ways to fix the corruption, but none of those occur during normal usage.

Not a single corruption happened to me during normal usage by just unplugging

If you don't safely remove and can successfully unplug a peripheral without corrupting everything, it's because you KNOW something about computers and not the opposite

 

[stretch]

I do the German way first, then yank it out furiously.

 

[UltraMagnus]

safely remove? I assume that is the same as "un-mount" on linux, which i pretty much always do. I have actually always wondered if the was a way to un-mount drives on windows.

 

[science]

On Windows... no. On Mac... yes.

 

[Canonbeat234]

Ever since my first USB drive died on me because I always pull it out from the USB port, I started to realize that safety removal could of prevent the trauma and crying from my previous one. So for now one I always safety removal EVERYTHING!

 

[KDH]

Yes. Or rather unmount, as I use linux. And wait until it disappears from the mounted volumes list in conky.

Only time I don't unmount is on the rare occasions when something goes wrong and umount reports that the device is in use when I've closed everything that could possibly be using it.

 

[dukenukethis]

I have a Mac, so unplugging without ejecting is out of the question. A friend of mine had a 120g USB seagate hd and unplugged it without ejecting and it corrupted his fat table and he lost everything on it!

 

[Shichibukai]

Never, almost never. And nothing corrupted.

if you don't have anything on like webs and that it's ok. OR so i'm told

 

[Edgedancer]

I never safely remove hardware. Never had a problem.

 

[Zamo]

I always unmount/safely remove.

 

[OSW]

Also, If you don't safely remove, you might get her pregnant

(can't believe i'm the first one to pull a joke!)
Maybe you missed my post.

QUOTE(ackers @ Dec 11 2008, 10:14 PM) Always safely remove. Then give it a good wipe.

lol my bad

 

[SylvWolf]

As soon as I read the topic title, I had to be sure that somebody made the obvious joke.

And I used to Safely Remove, but now, I don't really care.

 

[ThatOtherPerson]

Nope I never bother to safe remove but I do always wait for the little led that flickers when its read/writing to stop even after my computer seems to think its already done.

 

[TLSpartan]

I do it on my laptop because it takes only a couple seconds and a couple seconds here and there is much better then file corruption once.

 

[Trolly]

the internetz to you my friend

Good old IT Crowd

And I may have to start safely removing after all the times people have had problems it seems :\.