Phil Cook wrote:
> 
> But I thought the default option on XP was to allow that. Even if she 
> had physically removed it the next time it was plugged in it would 
> complain and ask if you wanted to run chkdsk.
> 

Allowing it is theoretically possible, yes. If the filesystem is running 
synced, you can remove the USB-drive from the computer when there is no 
visual indication of usage of the USB-drive (this might be the default 
on XP, yes). If the filesystem is not running synced, the devices really 
needs to be ejected, since rest of the data will be written at the 
eject. Anyway, if you remove the drive from the computer when the 
computer is writing on it, you will have at least something corrupted - 
no matter if the drive is synced (and you have visual indication on 
screen) or not.

In easy language: if there's copying going on oslt, *DO NOT* remove the 
drive.

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