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 ...
More than other OSes I've used, I find that Win 2008 (x64) seems to be reluctant to let go of a USB drive (hard drive, not flash drive; though I don't see why there would be any difference).<BR><BR>I ...