pcworld.com— Although an older article, this is good info for any computer user. How much do magnets really fry data? Does unplugging a USB cable too fast really cause damage? Read more here at this PC World article.
Jan 21, 2006View in Crawl 4
"terrible things can happen if you don't shutdown windows blah blah"It's 100% that bad things can happen. it just recently happened to my dads computer. His whole harddrive became corrupt. Windows died and he lost all his buisness data. PC World sucks.
They need to change the Bogus-O-Meter on "The Government Reads Everyone's E-Mail" to "true." The article cites the Patriot Act to show that the govt doesn't have the authority to read everyone's e-mail, but we know the President could easily claim the same inherent power he is using to justify warrantless wiretaps.
"If you don't 'stop' a USB device before unplugging it from a PC, you'll screw things up."They didn't point out that this is only true for pre-XP operating systems. XP doesn't do any delayed writing crap unless you specifically tell it to, and therefore, doesn't bother complaining when you yank out a USB drive.
dan005Jan 21, 2006
"terrible things can happen if you don't shutdown windows blah blah"It's 100% that bad things can happen. it just recently happened to my dads computer. His whole harddrive became corrupt. Windows died and he lost all his buisness data. PC World sucks.
Closed AccountJan 21, 2006
they probably have an external hdd asnd think it is a flash drive
3denJan 21, 2006
Hmm.. appears to be a digg bug if you mess up the captcha thingy
Closed AccountJan 21, 2006
They need to change the Bogus-O-Meter on "The Government Reads Everyone's E-Mail" to "true." The article cites the Patriot Act to show that the govt doesn't have the authority to read everyone's e-mail, but we know the President could easily claim the same inherent power he is using to justify warrantless wiretaps.
miothegreatJan 21, 2006
"If you don't 'stop' a USB device before unplugging it from a PC, you'll screw things up."They didn't point out that this is only true for pre-XP operating systems. XP doesn't do any delayed writing crap unless you specifically tell it to, and therefore, doesn't bother complaining when you yank out a USB drive.