I have just read that in Windows Vista and above, when you "Safely Remove" a device the USB port is not disabled and data can still be transferred. I know that you can change this behavior so that the port is disabled, but without this 'fix' is there any point in safely removing devices?
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I often pull out the USB stick without having to first eject USB, but so far I have not had any problems.   Would this lead to problems in the future?
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I cannot remove any bluetooth devices from my computer. I tried so many ways. Removing it from device manager, control panel, settings, bluetooth. None work. Why this is a problem? Say I change bluetooth adapter. I can't add the device because the device is still there. I can't connect either because it's not paired correctly with the new adapter. I tried unhide devices remove them. Shows up again in device manager. There are solutions that some programs do some long time ago. The program no longer exist. This is a bug that happens in many windows 10. What should I do? I just want my computer to &quot;forget&quot; all bluetooth device and start a new Where are all those Bluetooth device stored? I can delete them all. Someone told me to paste something in powershell. Something like Keith Miller's answer. This is the result. not only device I really want to remove is not listed, I cannot remove any devices at all      Select a device to remove (0 to Exit): 17     Removing device: Mi Phone mimax 3     Sorry, an error occured.          ******** Bluetooth Devices ********              1 - Generic Attribute Profile         2 - Bluetooth LE Generic Attribute Service         3 - Galaxy A70         4 - Device Information Service         5 - 小米蓝牙手柄         6 - Bluetooth LE Generic Attribute Service         7 - Generic Attribute Profile         8 - Bluetooth LE Generic Attribute Service         9 - Generic Access Profile        10 - Lenovo A6000        11 - Bluetooth LE Generic Attribute Service        12 - MX Master        13 - Generic Attribute Profile        14 - Device Information Service        15 - Device Information Service        16 - BT-163        17 - SMI-M1        18 - Bluetooth LE Generic Attribute Service        19 - Bluetooth LE Generic Attribute Service        20 - Avantree Saturn Pro        21 - Generic Access Profile        22 - Bluetooth LE Generic Attribute Service        23 - MX Master        24 - Generic Access Profile        25 - Bluetooth LE Generic Attribute Service          Select a device to remove (0 to Exit): 24     Removing device: Generic Access Profile     Sorry, an error occured.       I am looking for a more lower level solution. Things like getting rid some registry entry or some directory. Where do all info about these devices stored? I want to just delete them
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On Windows, is there any way to make some USB ports to be charge-only? I do not want to alter the settings of the devices; I want to change the settings of the USB ports on Windows, so that any device I connect to those ports will be only charged.  Is this possible?
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After I use the 'Safely Remove Hardware' notification area widget, how do I get Windows to re-attach a USB device (i.e. a USB drive) without having to unplug and plug it in again?
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I have a bunch of SD cards that do not have the little plastic switch for the read only setting. so Windows thinks it’s write protected or something. The card is not write protected by the software lock present on the SD card standard.  I’m using one with tape over the notch and it’s ugly. Also, the Thinkpad slot drags on the tape all the time so I’m afraid it will might loose in there eventually.  So, is there any way to tell Windows to ignore this lame write-protect feature?  I’m not interested on the SD card itself as it’s irrelevant for the issue at hand. Read this question as being about a 5.25” floppy disk drive instead of an SD card if you wish. I’m pretty sure the Windows settings are the same for both, really.  I’m  that there are 3 ways to secure an SD card. I’m talking about only the mechanical switch, which is the responsibility of the host to handle.
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How I can safely remove a USB external drive?  Ubuntu 12.10 does not come with this option, only to "Unmount" the disk, but not "Eject".    I have tried both USB sticks and with my external hard drive.
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What is the method to make files in a USB Flash Drive undeletable? Does these method work with USB 3.0 interface?  (I have surveyed some Flash Drive manufacturers, and I only see undeletable files for USB 2.0 drives, and not 3.0 drives. One manufacturer claimed that USB 3.0 cannot do undeletable file, so I am curious whether the claim is correct...)
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When I plug in my USB flash drive, it shows up on my computer as write-protected or read-only. I am unable to transfer data to it, nor can I modify or delete any files already stored on it. I also cannot repartition or reformat the drive using Windows Disk Management, DiskPart, GParted, or other tools. The drive does not have a write-protect switch.  Why did this happen and what can I do about it? Is there a way to remove the write protection?  (Note that this can happen with some memory cards, too, as they often use controllers similar to those used in flash drives. In some cases, the system may report that the drive or card was formatted successfully even though it was never actually formatted; the original data reappears when the device is reinserted.)     This question comes up often and the answers are usually the same. This post is meant to provide a definitive, canonical answer for this problem. Feel free to edit the answer to add additional details.
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Recently bought a new laptop with an extended warranty. Wondering if when a laptop needs to be sent in to the manufacturer for a repair (specifically a hardware repair),  is it ok to remove the hard drive when sending it in?  I don't want to risk my data (security) while in transit and out of my hands.  Nor do I want to delete sensitive files and restore them when my laptop is restored.  I guess this would make it tougher to troubleshoot issues and repair the laptop. I don't know what else I could do.
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I'm launching a VM using qemu-system-x86_64. I know two ways to pass through a USB device.  Say for example, I had a mouse that showed up in lsusb like  Bus 003 Device 011: ID 6ade:9582 Amazing Mouse Maker   I could pass it through using  -device usb-host,vendorid=0x6ade,productid=0x9582   or  -device usb-host,hostbus=3,hostaddr=11   Neither of these I really like. If I grab it by Vendor/Product ID then I will never be able to reclaim that mouse until the VM is turned off.  If I grab it by BUS and Device number, then I will have to tell Qemu to reacquire it if I unplug it.  Is it possible for me to send it by Port (the actual physical slot)? Say it's plugged in to Bus 3 Port 2. Can I pass it by that?
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I have a SanDisk Cruzer 32gb flash drive that cannot be read only on a specific computer due to some unknown reason. Do note that all my other flash drives are working fine on this computer. Here's my situation... Background Info I recently bought a HP laptop. Before wiping the laptop's hard disk, I used HP recovery media creator to store the HP recovery image in my flash drive. After I was done with wiping my laptop's hard disk and making sure my clean installation of the operating system works, I wiped my flash drive with the standard Windows formatting utility. I don't like the OEM's recovery stuffs because of all the bloatware, but I backed it up to my flash drive just in case my clean installation fails. The Problem Now, this flash drive cannot be read on my main desktop (running Windows 8) anymore. However, the same flash drive can be read on my other two computers (also running Windows 8) perfectly fine. Observations:  The flash drive cannot be accessed in Windows Explorer or any Explorer alternatives. Received &quot;Windows can't access this disk&quot; error messages when trying to check the disk's filesystem. The flash drive's size cannot be viewed in My Computer.  Ironically, according to the Device Manager, the USB flash drive is detected and working fine. Things I've Tried  Uninstalling the USB mass storage driver and rebooting. Uninstalling all USB drivers and rebooting. Wiping and reformatting my flash drive on the computers that it can work on using MiniTool Partition Wizard. Using BootIce to rewrite the MBR of the flash drive. Copying the MBR of my other flash drives to the problem flash drive using BootIce. I've also tried formatting in FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS.  All of the above methods have failed. Does anyone know what's the problem, or have encountered such errors before? Please enlighten me. Your help is much appreciated. Thank you. =)
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Is there a way to recover deleted data from a SSD / USB Flash drive?  All I could find were recovery for damaged drives, but I want to recover deleted data.  So how do I do this?
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Windows asks me to reformat every time I plug it into my computer, so I fired up Ubuntu via VirtualBox (selecting the external hard drive in the USB settings for VirtualBox beforehand) to see if I can access it there.  Does anyone have any suggestions for me? I have over 1TB of data on this drive and do not want to lose it. When I plug it into an electrical outlet, the light turns on, and when I plug it into my laptop, I can feel it clicking.
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I was reading about . How would this be done? The post talks about a 'looped mode' and comments suggest having a different controller to lie to the OS.  I went and bought one of these devices, tried it and it worked as advertized (overwriting data when it was full), although when I formatted it, it started showing its 'true' capacity.  How is this achieved?
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I frequently plug a USB keyboard into my laptop to use instead of the laptop keyboard.  However, when I do this, the OS (Windows Vista) then accepts input from both the laptop keyboard and the USB keyboard.  I want to place the USB keyboard on top of the laptop keyboard and that might result in accidental keypresses if the laptop keyboard is still enabled.  So, is there any way to disable the laptop's built-in keyboard when a USB keyboard is plugged in?  My laptop is a Dell Inspiron.
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I have a following problem: when I plug-in my USB flash drive, it isn't shown in Windows Explorer or recognized by system at all. In device properties, it is shown as:     USB MEMORY BAR     There's no partitions on the drive, so I can't format it:    DISKPART:     Virtual Disk Service error:   There is no media in the device.   HP USB format tool:     There is no media in the specified device.   Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thank You!
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Since I removed the USBs drive letter for the raw partition per the instructions , Windows 7s "Safely Remove Hardware..." taskbar icon no longer detects my USB. So, how should I safely remove my USB?  There doesn't seem to be anything on this problem in the TrueCrypt .