When ever you want to unplug/disconnect your USB drive or external
hard drive from your desktop or laptop computer, from Windows system
tray you always need to choose Safely Remove Hardware. The main reason
why you should do this is to make sure Windows is not busy reading from
or writing to the drive when you want to remove it. If you do this
without using Safely Remove Hardware option you could damage your drive.
However with just few simply modifications in Windows you can easily
bypass this options and avoid those extra click when you are removing
your drive.
On some computer this option may be enabled by default so this can be a good guide to find out if it is enabled or not. To get started follow steps below
Step 1: Plugin your USB Drive into your desktop or laptop computer, then click Start menu a inside search field type device manager
Step 2: Press Enter on your keyboard and Device Manager window will open
Step 3: Expand Disk Drive tree and locate your external removable drive. On my computer for example its called Kingston DT 101 II USB Device
Step 4: Right mouse click on that removable drive and from context menu choose Properties
Step 5: Now choose Policies tab
Step 6: In this new window you should have two options
On some computer this option may be enabled by default so this can be a good guide to find out if it is enabled or not. To get started follow steps below
Step 1: Plugin your USB Drive into your desktop or laptop computer, then click Start menu a inside search field type device manager
Step 2: Press Enter on your keyboard and Device Manager window will open
Step 3: Expand Disk Drive tree and locate your external removable drive. On my computer for example its called Kingston DT 101 II USB Device
Step 4: Right mouse click on that removable drive and from context menu choose Properties
Step 5: Now choose Policies tab
Step 6: In this new window you should have two options
- Quick Removal (Default)
- Better Performance
Next time simply unplug your external USB drive ir hard drive without any worries that you may damage him or its data.
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