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Originally Posted by DNSB
I suspect the notification area flushes the write cache and removes the device without unmounting the device while the other two ways flush the cache and unmount the device. Back in Sept. 2013, JimmXinu and Kovid Goyal had a discussion about ejecting a device under Windows and there were changes made in how calibre ejected a device to a method which did a flush cache and unmount. Reference was made to a Microsoft Knowledge Base item. How To Ejecting Removable Media in Windows NT/Windows 2000/Windows XP -- grammar courtesy of Microsoft. |
Thanks again, David. This is very good to know. Using that notification area icon lead to my NOOK being so corrupted that I had to erase and deregister - twice! Now I feel that I can use the device without risking that every time I connect to the PC.