In the good article Martin provides from a couple of years ago, note that the Quick Removal (safer) setting is the default now. But I’m not sure about that if you have an older computer. In other words, I’m not sure Windows updates change the setting if you had the cache on. Goodness knows, Windows updates will sometimes change settings; the ones I double check are power settings and drivers. This one, though, I’m not sure if it does.

It takes only a moment to go there and see what your setting is, and choose the safer setting.

I also use a third party utility called USB Safely Remove, which lets me see all my drives and also can safely ‘force stop’ a drive when you get the message it cannot be removed.

And etcjoe is correct that Windows safely closes a USB drive at shutdown, so you can just leave your PG Music-supplied drive always plugged in.

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