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If you've got a broken plug stuck inside your phone's USB port, don't worry. The process for removing it requires just a ...

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 ...

I've gotten a couple USB drives that have CDFS partitions built onto the drive. Similar to the way Sandisk creates their U3 drives. Sandisk has a utility to remove that "feature" and just make the ...

Sometimes, the “Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media” menu in the system tray shows devices that the user doesn’t need to remove, such as USB network adapters, Type-C monitors, SATA/SSD drives ...

It’s frustrating when your computer doesn’t do what you ask. If you no longer need a disk image connected to your Mac, and you go to eject it, it can be frustrating to be met with an error: “The disk ...

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 ...

While they're becoming less common, USB drives are a great way to transfer large amounts of data from one device to another. However, be careful when using these devices because taking them out of ...