Odd Vista/USB behaviour.

[Flibster]

Just spotted something odd with Vista.

With 98/2k/XP when you 'safely remove hardware' for a usb device it stops the device totally - Lights on usb pens go out, usb hdd's spin down.

Vista doesn't do this. So when I unplug my mp3 hdd player, the HDD is still spinning, same with the USB HDD's, same with USB sticks. Light stays on.

It's a bit concerning tbh. Data loss could be possible with the HDD's.

Sometimes I just want the mp3 player charging and not connected, on XP thats easy, plug it in then safely remove it. Still charges.

Hmmmm.

Simon/~Flibster

[ajbrun]

I'm pretty sure all my USB stuff works fine on Vista 64 bit Ultimate.