Software to Easily Remove usb drive??

[HardD99]

I recently tried out the ceedo software for usb flash drives and its alright, but not really worth paying for in my opinion so i uninstalled it. One thing i REALLY liked about it tho is it had a button that automatically stopped the drive so that you can remove it from the usb port safely. i'm wondering if anyone knows of a program that actually does exactly this, i just want it to maybe put a button the the desktop or something. i notice that you can right click the drive and select eject but i dont know if this actually does anything. is it safe to remove the drive by just doing that? thx guys!

[ndruw]

i thought after service pack 2 you could just pull it out - thats what i do anyways...no probs here

[GLSauron]

just pull it out - thats what i do anyways...no probs here
qft

[Lazn_Work]

i thought after service pack 2 you could just pull it out - thats what i do anyways...no probs here

90% of the time you can get away with this. But I have had it wipe all the data off the flash drive on me. (yes with SP2 installed)

You can just click on the remove hardware icon in the lower right (normal left click) and then click on the device to stop and it is far faster than right clicking and choosing from the menu.

==>Lazn

[HardD99]

actually i find it very time consuming to click that icon in the taskbar then press stop, because then another screen pops up asking what to stop then i have to select my drive and click ok, then wait for it to stop the drive. :(

[unhappy_mage]

Left-click instead of right-click and it brings up a little menu right there for you to eject it. Took me a while to figure that one out.

http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/150072.png (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&tm=33&id=150072)http://www.hardfolding.com/utag.php/mem/1392.png (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=36&id=1392)

[acaurora]

Microsoft actually have a USB Flash Drive Manager that you can download off their website. It even helps with making your flash drive autorun. Spiffy ;)

[IanG]

I haven't tried this (don't have my usb drive with me) but you should be able to create a batch file to eject the drive, and then leave it on your desktop and/or map it to a keyboard shortcut.

The command line item is RSM, text of the .bat file should be something like

@echo
rsm eject /d e: {insert your drive letter here}

More details abour rsm can be found here (http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/rsm.mspx?mfr=true)

Edit: this will eject the drive, rather than stop it, but with sp2 you should be safe removing the drive once it's ejected as it won't be written to any more.

http://www.hardfolding.com/ftag1.php/mem/474.png (http://www.hardfolding.com?go=38&id=474&tm=33)

[Lazn_Work]

actually i find it very time consuming to click that icon in the taskbar then press stop, because then another screen pops up asking what to stop then i have to select my drive and click ok, then wait for it to stop the drive. :(

Like Unhappy mage said, and I said, LEFT click, not RIGHT click and it is faster.


==>lazn

[JustPyro]

As long as you set the drive to disable write caching in the device manager, you shouldn't have to stop the drive at all. You can do this for external harddrives as well as usb drives. It's under the policies tab of the device once you are in the properties for the drive in the device manager. According to MS, this is safe for the drive to be removed without the "safe removal" icon.