Jump Drives

[scole90]

what happens to your computer when you unsafely remove a usb jump drive?

 

[jack22]

It only screws up the pen drive...not the pc really. It might just screw up the software but it mostly screws up the thing itself.

 

[XpBeast]

Sometimes the jumpper drive wont screw up evan if you pull it out it befor safely removing it.
I did and it did not screw up but the jumper asked if I wanted to set a password and other stuf.

 

[ACES WILD]

Heh heh I pull mine every time, im too lazy to find the things i know I should but mine takes the abuse (i dont advise you to do this)
BTW I did this to xp beast's once and nothing bad went wrong

 

[jack22]

Well sorry for wrong info then.

 

[crazyjoe16]

the only thing that's ever happened to me when i unsafely remove stuff was, the evil blue screen comes up and says "error: XxXXXXXXXX the memory could not be written press any key" and when i check the flash drive everything i wrote to it is gone

 

[technoman2]

all the safe removal is there for is to make sure that your computer is not still writing to it. if the drive is then you will lose data.

 

[The_Other_One]

I have quite a few USB drives(both with memory and card readers) So far, only one of them will actually mess up when you remove it unsafely. Still probably a good idea to do this... Though XP doesn't seem to mind too much