When we use removable storage devices, such as flash drives, external hard drives, and notebook cd/dvd drives, there’s a very important step to take before disconnnecting a device.

Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista have a built-in feature to cache disk writes. That is, they pretend that a portion of the computer’s RAM is a drive. When a program wants to write to a drive, it actually writes to memory (which lets the program finish the step faster, and return to the user’s control). Then, Windows manages the process of writing to the storage device.

The problem is…

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