[paradoxia]

I saw many guys ejecting their USB Disk by holding the Ctrl key. I opened the Task Manager and held the button Ctrl and saw all the processes being idle. Are these processes really idle? Does holding down the control key and pulling out a USB mass storage device(flash disk) help to protect it from damage?

[OLH064]

Not while writing a file. tested on XP.
EDIT: not while running XP. (doing anything)

This post has been edited by OLH064: 15 August 2011 - 05:05 PM

[paradoxia]

You didn't answer my question. I asked whether holding Ctrl helps or not

This post has been edited by paradoxia: 15 August 2011 - 11:56 PM

[FliP1992]

Not that i know of. What operating system where they using?

If by eject you mean remove safely and you are using windows you can click the "safely remove USB mass storage device" icon that will be located in your bottom right tray when you have a device plugged in. Although all this does is check that no programs are using anything on the USB device so there is no chance of corruption or loss data by you yanking it out.

On the other hand, if by eject you mean it springs out of the USB port then, no. No you cannot do this by pressing CTRL.

Thanks,
Tom

This post has been edited by FliP1992: 16 August 2011 - 01:13 AM