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I have just read that in Windows Vista and above, when you "Safely Remove" a device the USB port is not disabled and data can still be transferred. I know that you can change this behavior so that the port is disabled, but without this 'fix' is there any point in safely removing devices?

Cfinley
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Andy
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Yes. If you value your data use "Safely Remove" option. Windows is lazy it does not immediately flush all data back to the USB stick. When you use "Safely Remove" option it writes and flushes any remaining data in memory back to the USB device. Otherwise you can damage the files/folder or even the filesystem itself.

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