Is it true that your files will be corrupted when you remove the USB drive without clicking the "safe to remove" icon? I'm always clicking that icon because I don't want to have corrupt files. Is there a way to recover the corrupt files in a USB drive?

I have never heard of this before but I am curious to find out. I need to swap the current USB drive that I have for a larger one I guess? Right now I have a spider splitter but its been advised to just redo it all.

I mostly click the icon before unplugging my flash disk, just to be safe. But there are times when the icon doesn't work and I got notification like "you cannot unplugged the flash disk now" though I have closed all files in it. In that case, I would just unplugged it and everything is fine so far.

Ok yes, there is a risk of corruption but only really under certain circumstances. The big problems come when you are writing to the disk, when in fact it can corrupt the whole file system (yes I've had it happen). Otherwise the risks are minimal.

I've had people lose files because they didn't eject their USB before pulling it out. Usually, it's if the document they were working on was still open, or if the computer was in the middle of some autosave process or something like that. I always eject to play it safe.

I always try to eject my flash disk before unplugging it. It doesn't take so much work anyway. Is there any potential damage other than the corrupted files? Will it (not ejecting the flash disk) harm your computer also?

Unplugging without properly ejecting the USB drive won't harm the computer. It will be the USB drive that will have problems and not the computer where it was plugged in.



I've also experienced this problem once in a while. What could be the possible problem here? I have closed everything and there is nothing left on the desktop but it still won't eject.

Normally it is because something has remained in memory even though you told the computer to shut that program down. I don't know how to get around it-I've gone through running processes and shut down anything suspicious and it still failed.

I'm using a program that unlocks or kill the process of any running program. I also had problems with this USB drives in formatting them. There will be a message saying that the drive is busy so I can't format it. I would use the unlocker to make the USB drive free from running programs (usually the autorun) then I can format the USB drive. I think this is applicable for removing the USB flash disk if it will say that it is still busy even though you have closed everything.

What's the name of the program; is it free online? I'm always worried about unplugging my USB drive without ejecting on the computer, so when the computer refuses to do it, I wind up shutting down to get it done. Such a hassle!

Shutting it down is one good way of making sure that the USB can be safely unplug but I'm sure that it takes a lot of time.

The name of the program is unlocker. You can download the program here. I hope this will help with the problem of safely unplugging the USB drive.

I often experience it especially when I open PDF files in my flash disk. I close all the files still I cannot eject it. But after I close the application (Acrobat Reader), I can eject it without a problem.

Yes at least PDF documents can be force shut in this way. Many other programs seem to stay in memory even though there is no visible process running.