Safe ejection is good practice as it can prevent data corruption, but incidents are relatively rare. Modern OS and device caching reduce failure risk, so abrupt removal usually causes no harm. It's ...

Have you ever lost important data due to inappropriate removal of external drive? Windows doesn't allow you to stop a device? Accidentally stopped a drive you don’t aim to remove? USB Safely Remove ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. It’s a warning that many people have already been ignoring for years, but now Microsoft ...

It is a warning that many people have already been ignoring for years, but now Microsoft has finally admitted that you don’t need to ‘safely remove’ USB drives. The tech giant has updated Windows 10’s ...

Windows logs different activities under event logs, which can be accessed via Event Viewer, including connecting or removing a USB flash drive. But Windows doesn’t track this thing by default. Instead ...

Hollywood has a long history of grossly exaggerating hacking scenes. A nerdy guy hacking into a large corporation in seconds with just a few keystrokes is a classic example of an overused movie trope.