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Old Oct 9, 2004 | 11:14 pm
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I've had problems when pulling them out of the USB connection before stopping the device. I think if you do that -- remove before stopping -- the OS may be in the process of rewriting parts of the indices or allocation tables (or whatever) and you run the risk of corrupting your data. It happened three times to me, all three happened right after I removed without stopping.

They need to make these things with a push-button on the stick, that when pushed, triggers an event that stops the device on the OS.

P.S: W2K not handling FAT32 is nonsense.
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