So, is it safe to pull a drive without first properly ejecting it? Almost always yes, but sometimes — rarely — no. When can you remove a USB drive? You can remove a USB drive when it isn't ...

and USB flash drives, while more resilient, can still experience data corruption if removed during active write operations.

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It’s 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 ...