Memory Stick For Laptop

[smurfchops]

Hi I am looking for an easy to use memory stick to download photos and documents from my laptop as a backup. I would like 16GB. I dont want anything complicated! What would you recommend? Thanks in advance.

[SlackAlice]

Bathsheba

Because Windows "sees" the usb stick as a drive and as such needs to 'Eject' the media. In the Notification area there is a small icon for this purpose, just right click on it to Safely remove hardware.

If you do it this way then Windows will make sure nothing is being written to the drive, then tell you when it is safe to remove.

[Bathsheba]

@Slack Many thanks, much appreciated!

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[Old_Geezer]

As I understand it the Windows operating system does not automatically save to the drive when you ask it to. It can wait until it deems it appropriate.

If you remove the drive before it has saved you don't have saved data. If you remove it whilst it is trying-to save almost any corruption can occur. More often than not you can get away with it though.

You can use the 'safely remove hardware and eject media' icon bottom left (right click on it and select your flash drive) in order to get Windows to hurry up and do what any sane person would have programmed the operating system to do asap; but if any of your programmes have a file from the flash drive open, then it won't do it. You have to find all the spreadsheets and word documents and whatever else you have open, and close them all first.

It's not the flash drive that is complicated it is MS who thinks all this stress and hassle is ok to put upon their users.

[Bathsheba]

Thanks Old_G,.....I shall save this ready for when I need to use a memory stick.

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