@@elihillman8758 Due to that, i removed my external hard drive with force and disk turned into RAW. I definately recommend one program called USB Safely Remove. It can end System process'.
@@namesurname4666 Windows 8.1 was very good, I like it better than 7 tbh. And 10 is great too, it's just that these minor inconveniences and bugs are very unwelcome, not enough to make me switch back to older versions though
@@Diego35HD i know windows 10 in particular is a buggy mess, windows 7 is more stable, windows 8 is faster but it has a bad interface and i can't manage updates (worst downside in my opinion)
@@namesurname4666 The problem is that even at it's best, Windows still has minor bugs that will come at you, and my install is not exactly clean so if I can't find a reason for what's going on I assume it's a bug
@@Diego35HD the disk stops spinning after 10 minutes of idle by default if i'm not wrong, if the disk keeps spinning it will last more (i'm not 100% sure but it's done for a reason)
I think it's a windows bug, sometimes I do nothing more than copy a file and the disk doesn't stop spinning so I have to go to sleep mode to turn it off and remove it.
i remember I Removed a Formated Usb with no data at all i removed it safely my Dad was Like That : What is Wrong with you You Have nothing on it ( my dad Think He is A IT Expert But he is a Mecanical Enginner ) (my grammer is bad and i know it Please Dont reply For that )
most likely the heads are already parked so stop spinning because a command makes the motor shut down or simply because there's a power "loss" to the motor makes no difference
@@PCIeTeam Actually, if you're using Windows XP (or Windows Server 2001) and below, the computer will immediately bluescreen, and plugging it back in and restarting the computer won't brick it. But any versions of Windows above that will not bluescreen, instead absolutely every program running on that computer will hang, even if a program is loaded in RAM or on an external drive. If you reboot and plug back in the system drive, your computer will be stuck in bootloops.
Windows will run for a short time because Windows also runs on RAM but, everything that is upcoming is in queue, waiting to be it's turn so that explains the 100% Disk Usage when you unplug it.
I had a scare on lunix. I hibernated the computer, and then the next day unplugged the usb stick. "Failed to read /dev/sdb1: Input/output error". Fortuntely I just had to remount the usb and it worked, but i was scared af and i was actually thinking of formatting the drive..
The problem is, often what happens when I don't safely remove my external HDD is that then when I connect it again, Windows will constantly bug me to do chkdsk on it, for some reason it's just absolutely convinced it has drive errors.
@@JagiUGG Anyway, it also bothers me that it keep asking to fix the USB and that's why I do as I said: copy the data somewhere else, format the USB stick, and then I won't have that error anymore. I don't know if it make sense to run the repair on a device that you are going to format.
But anyhow, I also learnt my lesson I decided to use USB only for transferring data. I don't use them as a backup medium, so, usually I have the information somewhere else.
I also get this error on normal USB sticks. Windows keeps telling that it needs to be repaired. The solution: don't repair it; otherwise it can corrupt the data. It has happened to me. So, what I usually do is to copy all the information somewhere and quick format the USB. Better than running that repair thing.
@Watching Channel Safely removing it doesn't stop it my friend. And if it does, well, what difference does it make really? It is only dangerous if it's in a middle of a file transfer or something, which it is usually not because it auto-turns off when I don't use it for a while.
I'm pretty confident that that is related to dirty bit, if it is 1 when connecting drive to PC, it knows it was not properly disconnected, so Windows tells you that "it might contain errors", while safely removing it, dirty bit is restored to 0
Simple answer- If there’s still operations in the background and you unplug it without ejecting, it could cause corruptions or even file corruption (I had to delete a corrupted folder)
Yeah, maybe it doesn't matter in optimization, but I think, if the disk is working (even in background) it isn't really healthy to just plug it out. Someone mentioned here, if you won't safely remove your external disc, it will be unplugged while it's still working. It's like your PC would be turned off immediately because of power outrage. Then you are starting to worry if Windows will even boot to os Edit: but yep, if I'm using small pendrive with 8GB capacity and just copied a movie on it, I'm not worried about losing it, so then, I'm not using it. Note: pendrive doesn't work just like hdd disc. You have to be extremely careful if you want to keep you HDD for many years
I always play it safe and use the safe eject option in OSes that support it. If you’re using USB sticks in pure MS-DOS or NT4 (yes, drivers have been back-ported that far back!), the safe removal option may not even exist. In those cases, I don’t remove the stick until I’ve powered off the PC altogether.
Too often I’ve seen what look like successful writes, but afterward find out it only updated the FAT and corrupted the file, if not even worse.
if you dont safely remove it there is a small chance of corruption if a process is going on(if you are copying to the usb/external hard disk and then remove it the copied data can be corrupted).
I’ve actually had nightmares with write caching off with unsafely removing my work external drive. Lost a huge project file for a client. Must have something to do with how Premiere saves.
i prefer doing so, since i use an external HDD and FAT32-formatted USB sticks. i want to avoid damaging the chipsets/causing a filesystem or an input/output error.
Two of my microSDs got corrupted because of this. Not a advertisement, but EaseUS did find the files, however it seems to have extracted my ISOs and zips when viewing. Also wouldn’t let me recover the data with the Pro free trial, so I don’t recommend it. Off to find something else,
very sad this video isn't displayed on top when searching the problem. I've seen another video before telling me about the write caching and that safely removing is very important. However, I've checked it, just to make sure, and it's not enabled on my windows 11 system by default. Thanks for this video, now I can proudly tell my grandpa he isn't right when he tells me to safely remove my usb haha :D
I recommend ejecting the USB before removing it, because if you just pull it out, there could be a chance that you could burn the USB, and you need to buy a new one.
The optimization can only be observed for tons(but not roo much) of small files (it will finish instantly if enabled, but it will pop up the progress bar when disabled)
My theory is that write caching will speed up random writes on external HDDs & slower flash drives. I don't have an external HDD though so I can't check.
The only thing it is useful for is for external mechanical hard drives because when you press eject the drive powers down which prevents unplugging a spinning drive.
Hi Enderman, I found out something and that if you have Windows XP 32bit with VirtualBox 60MB RAM there is activated XP the old Windows 95 design with the old recycle bin etc.
Doesn't it also check if there's a data transfer in progress? then it would be a great way to make sure that the drive isn't busy and to prevent data loss by early unplugging
Cache is just a few MB, it's just useful if you copy small files once in a while. They will be stored on the fast 64MB (that's kinda the normal for HDDs, but i've seen ranging from 32 to 256MB) and then "slowly" they will be written to the actual plattters.
I actually don't understand why it corrupted almost every file (did you remove it as soon as it finished copying? either way, it would make sense to corrupt one file, not 4/5)
Also, this is not a NTFS feature (at least, the write cache), it's a drive feature which can be used on every drive that supports it (thus you say flash drives don't allow it, cause it wouldn't make much sense to have a flash cache to write on a flash drive). On linux IIRC it shows on the kernel logs the size of the cache and how it's been setup (has cache and is using for writing/has cache but is writting direct/has no cache)
i didn't use this or even know about it until a friend used it on the school computers to remove a usb, then i realized everyone in my house used it and told me that the usb could get damaged, i didn't care and didn't use it too much and then it grew on me but now i realize it's pointless
the only time i remember using the eject feature once when i was putting roms onto a micro sd to put onto my hacked ds, i was hyper paranoid i'd fuck something up so i used the eject feature to "make sure it wouldn't corrupt any of the files" i guess?? in hindsight that makes no fucking sense
And the answer from me is yes you do because if the computer is still writing data to the flash drive that data could get corrupted while in transit and that big important paper you where working on goes out the window
From my experience yes you do need to safely remove it because I've had many times where I had SD cards that simply wouldn't work because I didn't safely remove it.
I find that you need to unmount/safe extract drives if you are going to use it on different OSs. If I plug a USB on Windows, change stuff, unplug it, and plug it on an Android or Linux, it can't read the USB. I had to plug USBs people give me for stuff into a Windows VM and then safe extract them because Linux and/or android (which, kinda are the same when it comes to the usb driver I'd assume) refuse to mount it. Not the other way around. I still don't know why this happens.
After 11months, lol, I did discover why. It's because windows doesn't set the "this was safely unmounted" bit/flag, and other OSs refuse to mount if so, for safety reasons
i have a pendrive that i used to do stuff on when i was younger like making random things on it and for whatever reason it always says data corrupted but it seems like all data is intact
You're wrong because safety remove is not only for NTFS write caching feature. It's notify you of any running process that are using your external storage and when we use USB content with softwares there's a chance maybe we forgot to close so many apps we opened and those are still writing at it. Better safe than sorry to always use safe remove or eject option to find out our apps using it or not. For example I have more than 10 tabs in photoshop, both chrome and firefox open and so many other apps in between, so don't you think there's a chance one of these still reading or writing something to or from USB?
I had a seagate expansion drive plugged into the "mandatory loose-ass 2 usb ports on left side of laptop" and all day it would connect and disconnect every time I moved my leg, until now the drive is so corrupted that I can't even select it with any repair programs because it freezes them.
Some time ago I was transfering files from one pc to another. Removed the flash disk from the first one and when I inserted it in another, it had nothing on it but several random files with unreadable names and no extensions. The first and only time it happened and I don't know if it happened because I didn't remove it safely, but I don't want to risk, it's not worth a couple seconds saved.
isn't this dependent on filesystem used? I do get corrupted sticks in the past for not safely ejecting particularly FAT32 until windows brought NTFS and exFAT. also on some external HDD, they don't have safely remove (afaik in windows 8/8.1, forgot to check which filesystem) so for that one I had to make sure nothing is using it before pulling it. for me even if at times it's safe to pull it, I'll just do safely remove since windows being windows, we don't know what it's up to at times
YEs YEs YEs take it from me. My computer had stopped connecting to the internet and the lady at tech support told me to download some drivers from a separate computer which I did. Then I put them on my moms usb and took it out plugged it into my Alienware and bam, everything on that stick was gone
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nothing will happen to it unless you are transferring data or formatting it I once had an SD card for my Wii, I was using "Wii Backup Manager" to transfer some game, I ran out of power, and my SD card died...
Shit i'm so dumb - I've just watched ur last video and saw the song name in a little box at the top, then came back to this video and found it. For anyone wondering, its "HQ Trivia OST - Waiting Oneshot".
Me being used to hit eject for my USB HDD: *clicks on eject Windows: the hard drive is in use while its not so no. lol Me: fine. I'll do it myself *yanks it out of the USB port
Also this answers to the question why mac os and linux always tells you to remove drive after ejecting it from os. I have saw that in Linux the time you plug a usb drive/stick it starts caching the drive because the activity indicator blinks, and when we copy a large file, linux and Mac OS tells it's finished copying but the activity indicator blinks and click on eject tells not to remove the drive.
You should always unmount external devices properly. This video is misleading. The main reason to unmount pendrive or external disk is to make sure that software (apps, services) does not use it, does not save or read any data on it. It's impossible to break your device by not using "safe remove" but it's possible to cause data loss. Don't unmount your devices properly if you don't need containing data, otherwise always use "safe remove" feature on Windows or "unmount" button in Linux.
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I use it always when unplugging an external HDD. It stops spinning by doing so. I don’t like to unplug a spinning HDD
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0 likesI just yank the cord when done using external HHDs, I have never had a problem with them after word
0 likesi agree
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0 likes@@elihillman8758 Due to that, i removed my external hard drive with force and disk turned into RAW. I definately recommend one program called USB Safely Remove. It can end System process'.
1 like@@ReirtoRRNTX mechanical stuff that can be damaged easier when it's not parked?
1 like@@namesurname4666 Windows 8.1 was very good, I like it better than 7 tbh. And 10 is great too, it's just that these minor inconveniences and bugs are very unwelcome, not enough to make me switch back to older versions though
2 likes@@Diego35HD i know windows 10 in particular is a buggy mess, windows 7 is more stable, windows 8 is faster but it has a bad interface and i can't manage updates (worst downside in my opinion)
1 like@@namesurname4666 The problem is that even at it's best, Windows still has minor bugs that will come at you, and my install is not exactly clean so if I can't find a reason for what's going on I assume it's a bug
1 like@@Diego35HD the disk stops spinning after 10 minutes of idle by default if i'm not wrong, if the disk keeps spinning it will last more (i'm not 100% sure but it's done for a reason)
2 likesI think it's a windows bug, sometimes I do nothing more than copy a file and the disk doesn't stop spinning so I have to go to sleep mode to turn it off and remove it.
1 likeI always do because sometimes mine says there are still things running
1 likewhen i turn the pc off the hard drive stops spinning and the hdd does a loud click noise
1 like@@swishoemi hdd rotat e
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2 likesCame down to comments to say exactly this. Always safely unplug your USB HDD drives
2 likesi remember
2 likesI Removed a Formated Usb with no data at all
i removed it safely
my Dad was Like That :
What is Wrong with you
You Have nothing on it
( my dad Think He is A IT Expert
But he is a Mecanical Enginner )
(my grammer is bad and i know it
Please Dont reply For that )
I dont have an eject option on my HDD while it's plugged it.
3 likes@@boxtalks7994 or if you put your computer into sleep mode, the disk will also stop to spin, which means it’s safe to eject.
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2 likes@@elihillman8758 If you installed programs on it then it'd probably do that.
4 likes@@elihillman8758 what is inside your external HDD?
3 likeswell windows with my external hdd it doesn't let me eject it because its always in use by something (probably a system process)
19 likes@@boxtalks7994 true
4 likesSame here.
14 likesShort answer: No
316 likeslong answer: No unless you have write caching enabled
Full answer: Watch the entire video
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4 likes“Do you really need safety do remove USB devices”
151 likesMe: *just yanks it*
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my Mac wont let you remove it
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0 likesYou guys yank it?
1 likeFinally this answers my question. Guess I don’t need to spend 5 more seconds to remove a USB drive.
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0 likes@@iknowdawae893 same lol
0 likesWhen i saw ur profile pic i thought u were life of boris lol
2 likesMom: Don't say you're useless, it's not true!
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Don't worry, people still use you when they have an external HDD
2 likesWow you have a mum that would say that!?
7 likesFor flashdisk and external SSD: no
79 likesFor external HDD: yes because it will stop spinning
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most likely the heads are already parked so stop spinning because a command makes the motor shut down or simply because there's a power "loss" to the motor makes no difference
3 likesand for external hdd there is no right click remove option unlike usb,why would they do that ??
3 likesthat one dislike is the flash drive being yanked outta the pc
39 likesNow it brings up this question, do you need to safely eject the C: drive?
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No*cutely ejects*
0 likesshut down windows for that
0 likesً
1 like@@PCIeTeam Actually, if you're using Windows XP (or Windows Server 2001) and below, the computer will immediately bluescreen, and plugging it back in and restarting the computer won't brick it.
2 likesBut any versions of Windows above that will not bluescreen, instead absolutely every program running on that computer will hang, even if a program is loaded in RAM or on an external drive. If you reboot and plug back in the system drive, your computer will be stuck in bootloops.
@@NoNamelolxd nah
1 likeYou can't at all
If you do manage to do it windows will just freeze after a bit and you can't do anything
Windows will crash is guess?
1 like@@iam4pple yep a feature
2 likesEject computer!
the bruh
1 likeWindows will run for a short time because Windows also runs on RAM but, everything that is upcoming is in queue, waiting to be it's turn so that explains the 100% Disk Usage when you unplug it.
3 likesIt was a “feature” in Windows 98 or 95
2 likesNo
1 likeEndermanch did that already
2 likesNo you don't, here I'll do it n-
18 likesIn short form, do it just in case. I once yanked the USB put of my computer without 'safely ejecting' it and all the files got corrupted.
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well some said the corrputed isses was because some apps runs the usb
0 likesbutif you sure heres no thing to do than just yank it
I had a scare on lunix. I hibernated the computer, and then the next day unplugged the usb stick. "Failed to read /dev/sdb1: Input/output error". Fortuntely I just had to remount the usb and it worked, but i was scared af and i was actually thinking of formatting the drive..
4 likesI just use it because it tells me if there’s any applications working on the drive i might’ve forgot to save
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makes sense
0 likesSomeone copying "homework" 3:26
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yea lol 😂
0 likesThe problem is, often what happens when I don't safely remove my external HDD is that then when I connect it again, Windows will constantly bug me to do chkdsk on it, for some reason it's just absolutely convinced it has drive errors.
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@@JagiUGG Anyway, it also bothers me that it keep asking to fix the USB and that's why I do as I said: copy the data somewhere else, format the USB stick, and then I won't have that error anymore. I don't know if it make sense to run the repair on a device that you are going to format.
0 likesBut anyhow, I also learnt my lesson I decided to use USB only for transferring data. I don't use them as a backup medium, so, usually I have the information somewhere else.
@@jmemusic Well I mean... I guess? Hasn't happened to me yet, so..
0 likes@@JagiUGG But that's better than having your data corrupted
0 likes@@jmemusic Well yeah, but not repairing is not only annoying but it also blocks certain functionality until it is "fixed".
0 likesI also get this error on normal USB sticks. Windows keeps telling that it needs to be repaired. The solution: don't repair it; otherwise it can corrupt the data. It has happened to me. So, what I usually do is to copy all the information somewhere and quick format the USB. Better than running that repair thing.
0 likes@@Endermanch aw no way, you yourself replied :D
0 likesIt is a bug that I also have. I don't know how it can be explained either
5 likes@Watching Channel Safely removing it doesn't stop it my friend. And if it does, well, what difference does it make really? It is only dangerous if it's in a middle of a file transfer or something, which it is usually not because it auto-turns off when I don't use it for a while.
2 likesI'm pretty confident that that is related to dirty bit, if it is 1 when connecting drive to PC, it knows it was not properly disconnected, so Windows tells you that "it might contain errors", while safely removing it, dirty bit is restored to 0
5 likesMy Windows 8.1 Tablet :Safely Remove The Drive
7 likesMe: Broke my USB port
The write cache is useful when you copy small files on the drive.
10 likesEnderman: No need to waste time to safely remove it
5 likesMe: Oh nice!
My OCD: I'm not so sure about that >:)
Simple answer- If there’s still operations in the background and you unplug it without ejecting, it could cause corruptions or even file corruption (I had to delete a corrupted folder)
1 likethere's actually some cases where unplugging it triggers the dirty flag on the stick.
2 likeswith some sticks, it can even get actually corrupted
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my whole usb drive was corrupted once and i had to format it lol
0 likesI know someone in school who SHUTS THE PC DOWN too remove a USB stick
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hes dumb lol
0 likesI do it, but only when I booted from that USB, for example: an live cd iso image burned into a USB stick.
0 likes@@cheginde he is in 6th grade
0 likes@@adityatiwari2005 no.
0 likeslol thought the pc isn't plug and play :)
0 likesThere was a time where plugging or unplugging anything into a computer could cause a surge and break it. Talking 80s era here though.
1 likeLOL, is that guy you?
0 likesI think he just forgot that flash drive
3 likesisn't an internal HDD
Yeah, maybe it doesn't matter in optimization, but I think, if the disk is working (even in background) it isn't really healthy to just plug it out.
5 likesSomeone mentioned here, if you won't safely remove your external disc, it will be unplugged while it's still working.
It's like your PC would be turned off immediately because of power outrage. Then you are starting to worry if Windows will even boot to os
Edit: but yep, if I'm using small pendrive with 8GB capacity and just copied a movie on it, I'm not worried about losing it, so then, I'm not using it. Note: pendrive doesn't work just like hdd disc. You have to be extremely careful if you want to keep you HDD for many years
I always play it safe and use the safe eject option in OSes that support it. If you’re using USB sticks in pure MS-DOS or NT4 (yes, drivers have been back-ported that far back!), the safe removal option may not even exist. In those cases, I don’t remove the stick until I’ve powered off the PC altogether.
2 likesToo often I’ve seen what look like successful writes, but afterward find out it only updated the FAT and corrupted the file, if not even worse.
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That's just a crappy stick.
0 likesI wonder what would happen if you "safely" removed hardware while copying?
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It will say
2 likes"Chill you still doin' stuff in that external drive. Wait for a while"
it wont let you
0 likesif you dont safely remove it there is a small chance of corruption if a process is going on(if you are copying to the usb/external hard disk and then remove it the copied data can be corrupted).
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if you copying files or running an app from usb it can corrupt, its pointless and cringe if you do that
0 likesI’ve actually had nightmares with write caching off with unsafely removing my work external drive. Lost a huge project file for a client. Must have something to do with how Premiere saves.
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@Windows Vista Ultimate It’s a Samsung T5 so it doesn’t spin
0 likesIt's spinning
0 likesi prefer doing so, since i use an external HDD and FAT32-formatted USB sticks. i want to avoid damaging the chipsets/causing a filesystem or an input/output error.
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1 likeMy old windows ME pc from 2001 has the safely remove hardware option.
Under linux data isnt directly written to block devices (caching) so you must unmount before yoinking.
1 likeBecause i mostly use linux, i do this under windows too
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Two of my microSDs got corrupted because of this.
0 likesNot a advertisement, but EaseUS did find the files, however it seems to have extracted my ISOs and zips when viewing.
Also wouldn’t let me recover the data with the Pro free trial, so I don’t recommend it.
Off to find something else,
On 3:31 with captions on it says mama
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Its t-series crying for his mama
0 likesi think optimize may be help when you copy many small files. if you can please try again with many small files scenario
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Negligible difference, I have tried that.
3 likesvery sad this video isn't displayed on top when searching the problem. I've seen another video before telling me about the write caching and that safely removing is very important. However, I've checked it, just to make sure, and it's not enabled on my windows 11 system by default.
0 likesThanks for this video, now I can proudly tell my grandpa he isn't right when he tells me to safely remove my usb haha :D
I recommend ejecting the USB before removing it, because if you just pull it out, there could be a chance that you could burn the USB, and you need to buy a new one.
1 likeThe optimization can only be observed for tons(but not roo much) of small files (it will finish instantly if enabled, but it will pop up the progress bar when disabled)
0 likeswhen i was 7 years old i always used this because i tought when i just plug off pendrive it will broke
2 likesMy theory is that write caching will speed up random writes on external HDDs & slower flash drives. I don't have an external HDD though so I can't check.
1 likenope I think tech quickie did an episode on this
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@@functional200 Understandable, have a great day.
0 likes@@kibukaj2956 He can I just felt like pointing it out also I think he did a better job explaining it compared to tech quickie anyway.
0 likesOh crap lmao, I just googled it... well, to be expected, since it's an eternal question people have 😁
3 likesand does that mean he can't?
1 likeThe only thing it is useful for is for external mechanical hard drives because when you press eject the drive powers down which prevents unplugging a spinning drive.
4 likes3:24 A child progress and a parent progress
0 likesI eject them regardless
4 likesI use when I open many many of apps, so it reminds me what I don't close before eject usb. If just copy files, when done I just pull the usb.
1 likeHi Enderman, I found out something and that if you have Windows XP 32bit with VirtualBox 60MB RAM there is activated XP the old Windows 95 design with the old recycle bin etc.
1 likeI did this then my 300 GB files were 'Boom!'.
1 likeThe teacher want to hit me when i dont unplug safetly ;-;
2 likesThis is the first video I have ever seen on your channel
0 likesDoesn't it also check if there's a data transfer in progress? then it would be a great way to make sure that the drive isn't busy and to prevent data loss by early unplugging
1 likeCache is just a few MB, it's just useful if you copy small files once in a while. They will be stored on the fast 64MB (that's kinda the normal for HDDs, but i've seen ranging from 32 to 256MB) and then "slowly" they will be written to the actual plattters.
0 likesI actually don't understand why it corrupted almost every file (did you remove it as soon as it finished copying? either way, it would make sense to corrupt one file, not 4/5)
Also, this is not a NTFS feature (at least, the write cache), it's a drive feature which can be used on every drive that supports it (thus you say flash drives don't allow it, cause it wouldn't make much sense to have a flash cache to write on a flash drive). On linux IIRC it shows on the kernel logs the size of the cache and how it's been setup (has cache and is using for writing/has cache but is writting direct/has no cache)
I never use it... I never even realize it exists
1 likei didn't use this or even know about it until a friend used it on the school computers to remove a usb, then i realized everyone in my house used it and told me that the usb could get damaged, i didn't care and didn't use it too much and then it grew on me but now i realize it's pointless
0 likesthe only time i remember using the eject feature once when i was putting roms onto a micro sd to put onto my hacked ds, i was hyper paranoid i'd fuck something up so i used the eject feature to "make sure it wouldn't corrupt any of the files" i guess?? in hindsight that makes no fucking sense
2 likesAnd the answer from me is yes you do because if the computer is still writing data to the flash drive that data could get corrupted while in transit and that big important paper you where working on goes out the window
0 likesFrom my experience yes you do need to safely remove it because I've had many times where I had SD cards that simply wouldn't work because I didn't safely remove it.
0 likesOne of my teachers at school learnt the answer to this the hard way! 😂
1 likeI find that you need to unmount/safe extract drives if you are going to use it on different OSs. If I plug a USB on Windows, change stuff, unplug it, and plug it on an Android or Linux, it can't read the USB. I had to plug USBs people give me for stuff into a Windows VM and then safe extract them because Linux and/or android (which, kinda are the same when it comes to the usb driver I'd assume) refuse to mount it. Not the other way around. I still don't know why this happens.
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After 11months, lol, I did discover why. It's because windows doesn't set the "this was safely unmounted" bit/flag, and other OSs refuse to mount if so, for safety reasons
0 likesi have a pendrive that i used to do stuff on when i was younger like making random things on it and for whatever reason it always says data corrupted but it seems like all data is intact
0 likesYou're wrong because safety remove is not only for NTFS write caching feature. It's notify you of any running process that are using your external storage and when we use USB content with softwares there's a chance maybe we forgot to close so many apps we opened and those are still writing at it.
0 likesBetter safe than sorry to always use safe remove or eject option to find out our apps using it or not.
For example I have more than 10 tabs in photoshop, both chrome and firefox open and so many other apps in between, so don't you think there's a chance one of these still reading or writing something to or from USB?
I think you should but I don't think it will cause two much harm unless u do while important reading and writing data
0 likesIt sometimes useful for removable disks ( SD, Pendrive )
0 likesIt shows me " some app is still using disk". So if it writing important files.. thats useful
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@@lizzieaoi7140 Yeah.. it's only good for small drives
2 likesExcept when windows defender is reading YOUR WHOLE 1TB EXTERNAL HDD, STOPPING YOU FROM EJECTING IT FOREVER
1 likeI see you are really, really love ATA HDDs.
1 likeCommenting before watching the video
3 likesdoesn't matter what the video says do it anyway
Be safe than sorry
Good video Enderman keep it up!
1 likeI had a seagate expansion drive plugged into the "mandatory loose-ass 2 usb ports on left side of laptop" and all day it would connect and disconnect every time I moved my leg, until now the drive is so corrupted that I can't even select it with any repair programs because it freezes them.
0 likesIf you think you're useless, just remember that Microsoft put the "Safely Remove the USB Drive" option since Windows XP.
0 likesWell, if you just yanked it out when you are writing data to it, it would corrupt it. I guess it make more sense to eject it or lose data.
0 likesMy mom always tells me to remove it thru the "safe" way. I don't need to do it
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0 likes*GAS GAS GAS GAS GAS *
Finally I can safely remove usb in peace
0 likesCan you please do a video on how to change the windows theme? (Files & Folders)
0 likesLove the vids :)
my dad doesn't know the safely remove hard drive so he just takes it out instantly and i always hear the windows sound
1 likeSome time ago I was transfering files from one pc to another. Removed the flash disk from the first one and when I inserted it in another, it had nothing on it but several random files with unreadable names and no extensions. The first and only time it happened and I don't know if it happened because I didn't remove it safely, but I don't want to risk, it's not worth a couple seconds saved.
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Bruh your Flash disk is broken
0 likesfun fact: stupid usb sticks/drive will break randomly even if nothing done wrong
1 likeall my hard work... gone! 😩
The problem is, if I don't do it, the next time when I plug that USB stick in, it will shows error, every single time.
0 likesI only do it for hdds to stop it from spinning so when I just pull out everything else my friends freak out thinking I'm crazy.
0 likesMost of the times, I safely eject usb drive because if not, it always shows 'bruh ya didn't safely eject, wanna format it?'
0 likesMe being a monster by just unplugging external hdds without ejecting them, yes I do actually do that
0 likesisn't this dependent on filesystem used? I do get corrupted sticks in the past for not safely ejecting particularly FAT32 until windows brought NTFS and exFAT. also on some external HDD, they don't have safely remove (afaik in windows 8/8.1, forgot to check which filesystem) so for that one I had to make sure nothing is using it before pulling it. for me even if at times it's safe to pull it, I'll just do safely remove since windows being windows, we don't know what it's up to at times
0 likesMy dad always told me to do this when I was a kid.
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my too but I never did that 🤣
0 likesWhat's the worst thing that could happen?
0 likes"Do you really need to safely remove USB devices?" - "Who cares. Just unplug it whenever you want."
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What? USB? Who cares, just use the cloud, lol!
0 likesBut anyway, a side note: I still think that you need USBs. For example, for installing Windows 10 on new computers.
Do you really need to safely remove USB devices on Windows ?
0 likesFor other OSs you do need to remove them safely.
Wasn't it introduced in Windows 2000? Because when I use it on my Win2K machine it always warns me because I didn't safely remove it.
0 likesYEs YEs YEs take it from me. My computer had stopped connecting to the internet and the lady at tech support told me to download some drivers from a separate computer which I did. Then I put them on my moms usb and took it out plugged it into my Alienware and bam, everything on that stick was gone
0 likesso in my case, if you unplug it after it done copy the data, and move to another computer, data is gone (NTFS).
0 likesSo helpful video! Thanks!
0 likeswhat's the bg song name?
1 likeI need a Windows Longhorn BetaExplorer
0 likesEnderman : it’s a good day
0 likesMe : cringing because he is using windows xp
Never gonna give you up never gonna let you down never gonna swing you around and desert you never going to make you cry never gonna say goodbye never gonna tell a lie
i remove safely only ntfs usb drives because i think it has a ntfs disk cache
0 likesnothing will happen to it unless you are transferring data or formatting it
0 likesI once had an SD card for my Wii, I was using "Wii Backup Manager" to transfer some game, I ran out of power, and my SD card died...
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Oof
0 likeshow about apfs drive on macos (or apfs driver)
0 likesis it safe to pull out
Endermanch
0 likesAnother answer yes, as you must unmount drives on Arch linux
0 likesSong name pls?
2 likesI'll safely listen.
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Shit i'm so dumb - I've just watched ur last video and saw the song name in a little box at the top, then came back to this video and found it. For anyone wondering, its "HQ Trivia OST - Waiting Oneshot".
0 likesYou can also safely remove USB devices by unplugging the PC, then unplugging the USB
0 likesOn windows? No.
0 likesOn most other OSes? Yes.
Me being used to hit eject for my USB HDD: *clicks on eject
0 likesWindows: the hard drive is in use while its not so no. lol
Me: fine. I'll do it myself
*yanks it out of the USB port
What about the case for Windows 98SE? I have a USB Driver on a physical machine, would this make any difference?
0 likesgood video but @Enderman office 2003 in ur site is invalid (.zip is corrupted)
0 likesI don't think I've ever removed an USB stick out of a turned on computer. Not like I don't want to, it's just never happened
0 likesThanks
0 likesI found that my usb drive when not used safety removal then it will broken somehow, i'm not sure what it cause and why it cause
0 likesHaha raspberry pi go brr (it doesn’t matter if you yank the usb plug for the hard drive, or even the power cord for that matter)
0 likesWhen i remove my WiFi adapter my pc crashes, if i use this feature it doesnt
0 likesI think you should absolutely safely remove! What if something is writing to the drive and you've forgotten about it?
0 likesExternal hdd 33MB / sec ? Really faster for an hdd
3 likesI broke my usb pendrive because i disconnected it while copying files or something similar.
0 likesSafe ejection was introduced in either Windows 98 or ME. Don't disinformate, please.
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It was in 2k for Business and I think ME for Home
0 likesNice video
0 likesWhat happened to malwat.ch?
windows xp looks weird with a high res background
0 likesWhat about macOS? Do I have to unmount USB drives there? My Mac bitches around all the time if I don’t
0 likesyes yes yes new vid
0 likesI never used that, I just eject my diskettes normally.
0 likesDo you REALLY need to do it safely?
0 likesAhh i remmeber myself when i was a kid i just remove usb stick without safe removal
0 likesAnswer: still you have to cuz I use it and IT WAS STILL IN USE EVEN THE HDD OR FLASH DRIVE IS DOING NOTHING.
0 likesI love your videos :D
0 likesWhere did you get all these Windows ISO and products keys?
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Google
0 likessomething missing in my day when i dont click that safety remove USB device
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same goes here, probably because of the type of usb ur using
0 likesI dont pull out the usb stick. I just pull out the computer out of the usb stick.
0 likesShort answer: Okay
0 likesI eject my drives and my USB still gets errors on it.
3 likesJust my luck
At what time are you watching this very good video?
0 likesI HAVE A Challenge:
1 likeClick show more to Watch
Install Windows 10 Ita
I know the answer of this is no because of how many times I have removed a usb and forgot to do it safely
0 likesCan you do a video about install Deep Freeze and infect the system with virus, and then reboot to see what will happen?
0 likesNobody
0 likesYoutube subtitle: b Y E
Hello, so if my computer gets hacked and i still have my usb , than does the data stay there and its safe for use?
0 likesAlso this answers to the question why mac os and linux always tells you to remove drive after ejecting it from os. I have saw that in Linux the time you plug a usb drive/stick it starts caching the drive because the activity indicator blinks, and when we copy a large file, linux and Mac OS tells it's finished copying but the activity indicator blinks and click on eject tells not to remove the drive.
0 likesI don't think so. But i need it if my usb drive have virus.
0 likesMy usb flash is not working if i didn't remove usb flash with safe way
0 likesdoesn't win 2k have this feature
0 likesWhy did you render black video?
0 likesHENLO GUYS HENLO ENDERMAN
1 likeFinally....i know it!
0 likesWhen my friend want to remove USB he will not remove until he eject the usb 🤣🤣
How does your virtual machine not lag? I've got a RTX 3090 with i9 10900K and 32 GB RAM but still it lags so much. I use VMware. Any solution?
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VM tools
0 likes# sync
0 likes#
(100ms later)
Violently removes drive.
I don't use usb drives at all...
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@@sokszia9711 Google drive...
0 likesWhat are you using to transfer files? Floppy disks? Or what?
0 likesfinally, 4k!
0 likeshow many time in your website
0 likesJust eject drives to be safe.
0 likesI have about a million USB stuff plugged in. I just yeet them out
0 likeslong aswner for pendrives only: N O
0 likesCan you teach us how to execute viruses on VM ?
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1. Download a virus
0 likes2. Disconnect your VM from the network (just in case it network-spreads)
3. Run it like you would a normal program
4. Profit
I knew this over 6 years Lmao
1 likeWhen I didn't work too much on the external HDD, I can remove it safely. Otherwise, I have to restart the computer. It's annoying!
0 likesMeans I have to disable write caching on my USB 3 device, guess it's a lie that it increases performance , damn windows stop lying.
1 likeAzkara saabi…😂😂😂
0 likesLol i use the safe remove thingy i don't why it was needed.
0 likesYes i need
0 likeswait this even exists
0 likesWhy he not upload
0 likeswow
1 likeNo, unless its HDD
0 likesThis is the best video ever!
0 likeswhen you thought the HDD was an SSD? but the HDD is windows and SSD is data drive! and bsod :(
0 likesWoah You Back >:)
0 likes0:24 I also don't use it
0 likesBuen video aunque no entiendo nada de ingles
0 likesThe best video
1 likeHi
1 likeone time i tried to plug in my pc but it said power surge. i just restarted my pc lol
0 likesI never eject USB Drives
0 likesyay im early boi
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😂
0 likesHey Enderman, Where Russian Win Xp Iso Download Link?
0 likesTomorrow You Say link is after you fix the website.
Sorry For my bad english:)
your windows 10 isn't avtivated
0 likesСпасибо за видео :)
1 likeis this VM or the computer from the dualboot?
0 likesPS: TEH EPIK DUCK IS COMING!!!!!
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Vm
0 likesDo you really need to EJECT your PC?
0 likesI think I saw this video before
0 likesYou should always unmount external devices properly. This video is misleading. The main reason to unmount pendrive or external disk is to make sure that software (apps, services) does not use it, does not save or read any data on it. It's impossible to break your device by not using "safe remove" but it's possible to cause data loss. Don't unmount your devices properly if you don't need containing data, otherwise always use "safe remove" feature on Windows or "unmount" button in Linux.
0 likesI was sleeping... 🥱
0 likesWooow i have data traveler 100 g3 32gb
0 likesThe answer is NO
0 likesYou vidoe is good
0 likesno, i yank the usb off
0 likesWhere can I download Uninstall Tools?
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@@samuelhulme8347 ...
0 likesGoogle
0 likesА что прикольно. Люблю такие видосы
0 likescool
0 likesI always safely eject no matter what.
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😂
0 likesactually you should.
0 likesI think
0 likesI mean ur talking about Microsoft here ofc there’s bad stuff about it
0 likesu play gd
0 likescool
enderman please get me font name
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OK I LEAVE YOUR CHANNEL Sorry Enderman XD :(
0 likesБро, где русские субтитры?
0 likesno
0 likesHe Enderman in my home im laptop fon Windows 7 Now Windows 10 my computer is not good the is old Laptop
0 likesDelete Windows Folder
0 likessafety renove USB is lie
0 likesЭндермэн, почему твои видео на английском?
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Он русский
0 likes#earlysquad
0 likesEject computer
0 likeswhat is this goofy song
0 likesn o
1 likethat so weird that my pc says 2 views
0 likesyotus
0 likesXP
0 likesWindows do safe removal and my USB dead
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@@justsomerandompersononthei2595 i broke my internal hard disk like that
0 likes@@FluffyFoxUwU Probably you wrote to it too much and it broke? That's what happened to me once.
0 likes@Watching Channel i found the notification
0 likesbut my USB disk wont work anymore after i plug it again
@Watching Channel i do it then i reconnect it because i forget something then the USB drive i use is dead
0 likes1000th!
0 likesEarly squad
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0 likesDo you really need to safe remove your shoes inside?
0 likesYou do not need. Reason? Just shut down the PC and THEN unplug the USB!
0 likesT h a n k s f o r c o m m i n g t o m y t e d t a l k
The website says the same thing as the store is impostor and then go to sleep in the morning and then In the night wake UP and I have mod for pc plzzz and then go to sleep in a few hours and I don't have to say anythingkdyjzfeyluzfuljfzlgzjl
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0 likesYou russian?!
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