Comments on: How to safely remove your usb drive when Safely Remove Hardware icon disappear from taskbar in Win Xp.

By: Vaibhav

Vaibhav — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 02:34:50 +0000

this is one of the ways, but what i follow when this happens with my pen drive is, i just click eject, and thats all, this is pretty much easier, but the proper solution is what you have talked about

By: Ashfame

Ashfame — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:27:47 +0000

Good Work!
Well you can create a shortcut for that to simplify the process. That will be much better.

By: abhishek

abhishek — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:30:40 +0000

yup u can simply create a .bat and place the command in the batch file itself and just double click only to initiate the command.

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By: Ashfame

Ashfame — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:01:45 +0000

Yes I know how it can be done. Just intend to tell others.

By: Nirmal

Nirmal — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:48:13 +0000

Good tip, these are simple yet useful tip, when in need we may not remember how to do it.

By: Morrisz

Morrisz — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:33:00 +0000

That was really useful.. eject won’t really disconnect your drive, tho. Thanks a lot for the tips

By: actinium

actinium — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 09:25:00 +0000

Thanx for the useful info…my problem is related. The safely remove icon does come, but whenever I try to click on Stop button in Safely Remove Hardware Dialog, it fails each time, saying The Device Can’t Be Stopped Right Now - i checked with Unlocker tool to verify if some process was blocking the drive - even if there is no process accessing the drive. Ultimately, I have to pull out the USB Drive without performing the Safely remove operation. Though I read on the web that in WinXP SP2 cached writing to portable drives is disabled, so I won’t lose any data if I’m sure the drive was not in use, but still, I’d prefer to disable the drive before removing it. plz advise

By: ignorami

ignorami — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:32:33 +0000

Thank you for this! Worked perfectly. I wonder why this icon disappears from the taskbar in the first place.

By: Ashfame

Ashfame — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:02:02 +0000

I have written a three method tutorial on safely removing usb drives. Check it out here : http://blog.ashfame.com/2008/02/safely-remove-usb-drive-safely-remove-hardware-icon-disappears-system-tray/

By: dhillarun

dhillarun — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:13:01 +0000

Thanks … This works fine…

By: lori s

lori s — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:41:04 +0000

Thanks! Worked great.