I recently bought a WD 320Gb 2.5" external drive to use at work, upgrading my old 160. I was too lazy to re-format from FAT32 to NTFS, but did this one as soon as I plugged it in.
The problem is, with Vista Ultimate this drive never shows up with the "safely remove device" feature. In the advanced device properties, it is currently set to write caching and to be removed without using the "safely remove device" system.
So, how do I get it back to "normal", or do I need to? Is it going to be OK to just plug/unplug at will? At work this is going to be used on a Win XP system, so I'm not sure how it's going to work there, either. I've never seen this behavior before, is this something unique to Vista?
The problem is, with Vista Ultimate this drive never shows up with the "safely remove device" feature. In the advanced device properties, it is currently set to write caching and to be removed without using the "safely remove device" system.
So, how do I get it back to "normal", or do I need to? Is it going to be OK to just plug/unplug at will? At work this is going to be used on a Win XP system, so I'm not sure how it's going to work there, either. I've never seen this behavior before, is this something unique to Vista?