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Posted by Ron M on November 30, 2008, 4:50 pm
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Thanks RC for the prompt response and info. I will keep your message
for possible future use.
wrote:
>Hi, Ron.
>
>I've never tried Registry Mechanic. The Disk Management utility is built
>into every copy of Windows since Windows 2000 and it is THE tool for
>managing hard disks - and other devices that may be assigned a "drive"
>letter, such as USB flash drives, cameras and card readers, etc. DM can
>reassign any drive letter except for the boot volume (which holds the
>Windows directory tree) and the system partition (which holds the boot
>manager and a few other files to start up the computer). In almost all
>systems, both the boot volume and the system partition are on Drive C:.
>
>In Disk Management, right-click on your thumb drive, then click Properties.
>On the Policies tab, you can choose between optimizing for Quick removal or
>Better performance. The Quick removal choice disables write caching, so
>that all writes are performed immediately. This means that you can "pull
>the plug" at any time without waiting for the system to flush the cache and
>turn on the Safely Remove icon. For most of us, this is the correct choice
>(and is now the default).
>
>This won't solve your existing scheduling problem, but should prevent a
>recurrence.
>
>RC
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