Reader Dane wrote in seeking help with this hassle: “After using Safely Remove Hardware for my SD card, I have to reboot my PC before my PC will recognize another SD card. Is there a way for the PC to ...

Safe ejection is good practice as it can prevent data corruption, but incidents are relatively rare. Modern OS and device caching reduce failure risk, so abrupt removal usually causes no harm. It's ...

Most Windows users have become conditioned over time to never unplug a USB flash drive or hard drive without first clicking Safely Remove Hardware in the System Tray. Why is that necessary? In theory, ...

Microsoft has set the record straight on fears of data loss when removing USB storage devices from a Windows 10 PC, confirming that you no longer have to use the safely remove hardware feature as ...

I have a system running Windows Server 2008 that has developed a problem with the Safely Remove Hardware feature. The icon for it does not appear in the tray.<BR><BR>I've tried googling it and most ...

Hi All,<br><br>Windows XP has decided that my sole hard drive can be "safely removed", and gives me an icon to do so in my icon tray. I'd like to convince XP that it ...

For whatever reason, the "Safely Remove Hardware" dialog always seems a bit less than convenient to get to for me—mine is usually hidden behind that expanding arrow, and clicking through all the right ...

One of the most annoying Windows features ever, one that lasted through many iterations of Microsoft's popular operating system, was the prompt to safely remove a storage drive before actually yanking ...

We all know that one person who annoyingly reminds you to use “Safely Remove Hardware” before pulling the USB drive out of the slot. They shouldn’t bother you anymore. As Betanews first noted, ...

If you’ve been bitten by this bug there is now a fix. The bug only manifests itself in Vista if you left-click on the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the task tray and then click Safely Remove ...