No matter how conscientious you are about handling your external storage devices with care, it's probably happened to you: you were in a rush and yanked out your USB drive without ejecting it. On the ...

If you unplug a USB external drive before making sure it’s safe to do so, you’re courting disaster. The sudden, unprepared removal of a storage device can corrupt files. I’ve even heard stories of it ...

I've gotten a couple USB drives that have CDFS partitions built onto the drive. Similar to the way Sandisk creates their U3 drives. Sandisk has a utility to remove that "feature" and just make the ...

In brief: Do you have a devil-may-care attitude when it comes to removing USB sticks and hard drives, preferring to pull them straight out of a PC rather than 'ejecting' them? Soon, you won't have to ...