A Warning to Vista Users...

wafflez

wafflez

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This may not apply to many of you..but I'll post it anyways, feel free to delete it if you feel it is spam.

EDIT: agh, I typed too much, here's a summary: Don't pull out a flash drive using readyboost if its light is solid, (it's being used as cache)

If you are using readyboost, do NOT ever pull it out while it is in action. It WILL cause your hard drive to crash if it is caching something even though the page files are backed up on the hdd. This has happened to me and quite a few others on the internet. Basically, I stuck in a flash drive with the readyboost cache and a word document on it. I printed the word document, and while it was sending the file over the network, I decided to go ahead and delete the 480mb readyboost cache file I had on it seeing as how I didn't use readyboost anymore. Now apparently, I was supposed to disable the cache in properties before I yanked it out while it was being used. So I pulled it out while the file was being sent to the printer and the file was being deleted and all of a sudden my computer had a massive slowdown for a few seconds and I could hear the hard drive clicking...It had died....
 
That doesn't happen on the system I have. If i pull it out when It is flashing it does nothing but slow for abit.

Microsoft have thought about this and have allowed the stored data to be written to the hard drive as well as the device.

Sorry to hear about your Hard Drive

EDIT: Just tried it.......nothing happened, my hard drive is still working.
 
My harddrives click and make all kinds of terrible noises, but they're still going strong =)

Sorry about your loss though =(
I've lost my share of HDDs along the way as well =)
but somehow I leave them sit somewhere for a year, then try to boot off them.. and they run fine? lol.
Just like my latest computer, which is living off the death of many others :]
The only thing that is new in it, is the case.. rofl. /sigh
 
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