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USB Buffalo500G is no longer compatible with my mbpr
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1604498"><p>As with getting someone pregnant -- you can try a hundred times, but it only takes once.</p><p></p><p>here's the thing: if you pull a USB drive without properly ejecting it and it wasn't doing ANYTHING at that moment, it's probably fine.</p><p></p><p>But if it was writing to the directory or doing ANYTHING else that involved writing, you destroyed the directory structure when you pulled it out without ejecting, and short of a reformat the drive is now useless.</p><p></p><p>THIS is why we say to ALWAYS safely eject the device (on Windows or Mac) before physically removing it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1604498"] As with getting someone pregnant -- you can try a hundred times, but it only takes once. here's the thing: if you pull a USB drive without properly ejecting it and it wasn't doing ANYTHING at that moment, it's probably fine. But if it was writing to the directory or doing ANYTHING else that involved writing, you destroyed the directory structure when you pulled it out without ejecting, and short of a reformat the drive is now useless. THIS is why we say to ALWAYS safely eject the device (on Windows or Mac) before physically removing it. [/QUOTE]
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