I'll add something else to Gerald's comments. If you plug and unplug a printer which functions through the USB port, the system calls it new hardware and duplicates what you may already have in your system. That can be a real trip. I once had 5 copies of my Brother printer before I realized what was happening.

John Justice
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Levy" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] is there a particular way to unplug a flash drive



You should select the Safely Remove Hardware option before unplugging any device connected to a USB port. This includes flash drives as well as external hard drives. You can find the Safely Remove Hardware option on the System Tray, which you can access with JAWS by pressing JAWS key -F11. The flash drive or external hard drive is normally assigned to drive letter E.

Gerald

----- Original Message ----- From: "jason smith" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 7:57 AM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] is there a particular way to unplug a flash drive


Hi list,
I have a flash drive, that I want to start using instead of relying on floppy disks, which tend to be more fragile. As I understand it, I just plug the flash drive into one of the USB ports on my computer. And it should show up as drive E in the "my computer" list. Is that correct? From what I understand, when using a USB external hard drive, you are meant to select the "safely remove hardware" option from somewhere on the computer before unplugging the external drive from the computer? Is this correct? And where do I find that option for when I start using my external drive? Do you have to follow the same procedure for unplugging a USB flash drive? And are Flash drives and USB hard drives regarded as the same thing? As I have a 500 gig external hard drive. And an only 1 gig flash drive.
Thanks Jason
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