For safety purposes as well as to prevent corrupting the data inside the external hard drive, it is highly recommended to safely eject the external hard drive. Although most Windows 10 already has a ...

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A USB flash drive is a reliable way to transfer files between PCs, back up important data, or even test out different operating systems. While most USB flash drives can last over a decade, their ...

Don't try to eject a drive when you've got files open or are copying large amounts of data to or from it. If nothing seems to be using the drive, use Terminal to highlight any background services that ...

Several users have experienced an issue in which an attached FireWire or USB drive will not eject. Instead, an error message pops up claiming the drive cannot be ...

Pick your favorite way to eject disk volumes from your Mac and put an end to the Disk Not Ejected Properly warnings. Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming ...

You can disconnect your external storage device from your computer directly but it is not recommended. Disconnecting the storage device without using the Safely Remove Hardware feature may not only ...

We use the USB ports on our computers for accessing a variety of useful (and sometimes strange) USB gadgets. Often, these ports serve a temporary purpose, allowing users to plug in a USB stick and ...

I have a 13" 2010 Macbook Pro and I recently tried to do the optibay upgrade. My problem is that I bought an external enclosure for my superdrive, specifically this one: It seems to work fine, I ...

I have an external USB disk that sometimes isn't recognized when I plug it back in. It has a Time Machine partition and an exFAT partition. When it's not recognized, one or both of these shows up in ...