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Originally Posted by Seanette
I have a Western Digital external hard drive (not sure of model) I use for backing up my Vista laptop and XP desktop. How do you set that "quick removal" option, or is that specific to the MyBook model?
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Quick-removal is (sensibly) set by default on WD external drives (as well as pretty much every USB flash drive and device).
You can check it on Windows 7 this way:
* Control Panel / Device Manager
* Expand "Disk Drives"
* Double-click the drive you want to check
* Go to "Policies" tab
Removal policy is indicated right there. For removable USB drives of any kind you want "Quick Removal". The performance increase using the "better performance" option is not worth the risk of losing files if you forget to do the safe-removal thing before unplugging it.
However the Reader will not allow its "Better Performance" setting to be changed.
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Originally Posted by babyd
you are supposed to eject it using the reader software before closing the library, same as with calibre. If you do this you will not encounter any issues. The eject button is the arrow next to the reader icon in the left pane.......  |
Yep, I was using the eject button each time. It's a bad and user-unfriendly method, though. If the device was optimised for quick removal, when the "do not disconnect" warning disappeared from the Reader's screen, you could just unplug it without any danger. This is how iPhone/iPod etc behaves.
I didn't check to see if the drive remained active in Windows AFTER ejecting though. I'm inclined to think, based on the file system damage I saw, that it does.
I shall check this and report back.