A really irritating characteristics of Win

[VipFREAK]

Hey all,

I'm using win XP and as my title says it's pretty easy to keep the list of irritating stuff going about windows. One things I don't understand that's driving me crazy is that I have an external HD (or for that matter anything dealing with storage or transfering stuff) with a USB connection and before you can "disconnect" the drive you have to click the stupid icon for stopping whatever it is that's connected. Well, I go to do it and it gives me a message that says, "cannot stop now, try again later" (what it should say). It's irritating as hell and some times works on the first or second try. Do I have to live with this? Thanks for your help

Nick

[Gilthanaz]

All of the computers at school run windows XP, although im on 98 at home. I have a USB jump drive that i use all the time to move programs and information, and when I'm done using it on the XP machine, I usually just pull it out. Windows gives me that little temper tantrum that I didnt "stop" it first, but it hasnt caused me to lose any data on my drive. I would assume that the HD would be the same since it is also a USB device.

[DVNT1]

It's rare, but I've lost the data by pulling out a USB memory device without using the Disconnect method first (and I know it per it's activity light, it wasn't actively writing either).