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Once the device stops and disappears from the hardware list, it’s safe to physically remove it. A new window will open up – for each device you want to safely remove, click on its name and press the “stop” button. Close all open files, right-click on this icon, and then select “Safely remove hardware”. When a removable device is attached to the computer, an icon with an image of a computer chip and a green arrow (Windows 7 & XP) appears in your system tray. Safely removing hardware from a PC is dead simple. Safely eject removable devices from Windows PCs

Safely eject removable devices from Mac.

Safely eject removable devices from Windows PCs.

If you simply detach a removable device from your system without safely removing it and one or more of its files are open or have changes waiting in the write buffer, those files may become corrupt and unusable. Instead, they may get sent to a buffer for one reason or another, and sit there waiting for the operating system to become ready for the write operation. When you save a file to one of these devices, your changes sometimes do not get immediately written to the physical device. When people complain about damaged files on removable media such as USB thumb drives and external hard drives, the cause is often because they do not know how to safely remove these devices from their computers.

So, this article is all about how to safely eject removable or external storage devices such as external hard disk, USB pen drive, or memory card. Have you ever discovered that some photos or files on a memory card or thumb drive are corrupt? You might be yanking these storage devices from your computer in an unsafe manner, resulting in data loss.