Safely Remove Hardware?

Annabell Bevier: There is a function in your Control Panel called Add or Remove Hardware. You're best off using that.

Olin Hallin: First of all, if you want to continue using those drives, I'm assuming you mean jump drives, then DO NOT use Safely Remove Hardware. When you do this it stops the activity of that drive and rpevents it from any further use until the system is restarted.Simply unplug the device and you can reuse it later.

Alexander Villas: "Safely Remove Hardware" appears in the Task Bar, if the hardware is not verfied/approved/signed by Microsoft.If the hardware works , you can ignore the warning/s.It has not passed Windows Logo testing.Just now I got my ADSl USB driver setup ( Chinese) disconnected to answer you. I am working without any problem for the last eight months. ADSL+Modem is connected to the USB Port.Also I can connect via a RJ45 to the computer's ethernet card. I think this warning comes only for hardware connected to USB Ports....Sh! ow more

Rodolfo Merel: When you click the icon to "Safely Remove Hardware" you are given a choice of which device(s) to stop. Clearly, you are making the wrong choice, or selecting all of them.Try looking at it when no other devices are connected. Make a note of what you see. Now, add a device, check and see what it's name is.

Logan Bero: press the icon that comes up then it'll say "ok you rock so you can remove hardware"

Kimberlee Bowdish: You're not doing it wrong, that's how Windows is written. If it allowed you to write to the drive again it wouldn't be safe to remove until you did the safely remove hardware thing again!To get the drive back without rebooting unplug it and plug it back in. (I'm assuming it's something like a USB drive.)

Nicolasa Henke: I hope this doesn't qualify as a "dump response"... but I want to make sure that you are removing this device from your computer after "safely removing it". It won't recognize it again, until yo! u remove it and plug it back in again.

Clemmie Burkleo: ! Gold Dog is right. You have to actually unplug the device for it to be considered "removed". once you unplug it you can plug it back in and UPNP will kick in and the device will automatically be detected again.

Brenton Cornwall: that function is mainly for flashdrives and things of this natureyou just left click on the little icon down there and click on the drive letter you want to stop service toone of my computers has various things that it recognizes, so you just have to be careful and pick teh right oneif it still stops recognizing the hardware, try unpluging it and pluging it back inthat could make it recognize it again, and you dont have to restartand dont use add/remove hardwareim pretty sure that will uninstall the drives, toothats not the best thingtho XP does have drivers for most things out there, so its probably an easier fix than with 98 or something...Show more