The Old New Thing

The unsafe device removal dialog

December 16, 2003 Dec 16, 2003 12/16/03

Raymond Chen

In a comment, somebody asked what the deal was with the unsafe device removal dialog in Windows 2000 and why it's gone in Windows XP. I wasn't involved with that dialog, but here's what I remember: The device was indeed removed unsafely. If it was a USB storage device, for example, there may have been unflushed I/O buffers. If it were a ...