How to avoid data loss when directly unplugging the USB drive

How to avoid data loss when directly unplugging the USB drive

Friends who have used USB flash drives will encounter this situation. When you want to exit the USB flash drive, click the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon on the lower right, and a dialog box will pop up, "Cannot stop the 'Universal Volume' device now, please stop the device later." Some friends are afraid that the data in the USB flash drive will be lost after directly unplugging the USB flash drive. In fact, the files in the USB flash drive are not opened at this time, and the USB flash drive is also normal, but why does this problem occur? Will the data in the USB flash drive be lost if it is directly unplugged? Let me use the purchased Teclast Mind Tower USB flash drive to set it up and explain to you how to solve this situation and avoid data loss when the USB flash drive is directly unplugged.

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First open "My Computer" and select your USB drive letter. Right-click and select "Properties". Then the "Removable Disk (H:) Properties" window will pop up (the drive letter here is arranged according to the partition of the operating system hard disk and the partition of the optical drive). Click the "Hardware" tab. Select the USB drive to be used in "All Disk Drives" (don't make a wrong choice, there will be hard disks, floppy drives, optical drives, virtual optical drives and other devices here. Generally, USB drives will have the letters "Flssh Disk USB"). After selecting, click "Properties". Then the USB drive name property window will open and select the "Policy" tab.

At this time, you can choose according to your needs: If you choose "Optimize for fast deletion", the speed of reading and writing with the USB disk will decrease, but when the user directly unplugs the USB disk, the data in the USB disk will not be lost or damaged; if you choose "Optimize for improved performance", the reading and writing performance of the USB disk can be optimized, but if the USB disk is directly unplugged, the data in the USB disk may be damaged or lost. After making your selection, click "OK".

Generally, the reason for this problem is that files in the USB flash drive are being used. You can check which processes in your computer may be using the files in the flash drive and close them. For example, a folder is open, or there are similar monitoring processes such as antivirus software that scan some files by default, or the system is indexing the files in the USB flash drive. These relatively hidden file usage situations can cause this problem. The author recommends selecting the "Optimize for fast deletion" option so that the USB flash drive will not lose data when it is directly unplugged.