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Would you reccomend applying MS KB article for powering down USB Ports
Hi again people!!!
After finally replacing my old PSU I can use my external HDD in both my laptop and destop machines, but, since a time ago, I notice that XP is able to power down devices you safely remove, but Windows 7 is not... and everytime I use W7 with my external, I gotta unplug the cable (just of course after safely removing) with the power still going through the HDD... and it sounds weirdly when doing so...
Sometimes windows will tell the disk has errors even if I safely removed the hardware and I guess it's because of this, however, the disk is not damaged (fortunately).
Looking for solutions I found this KB article from microsoft: USB Port Remains Active for Disabled or Safely Removed USB Device
They say this behaviour is intenden on Windows 7 and even Vista, but I really fear that the HD can be fisically damaged if I cannot get it to spin down before fisical removal...
The question here, is, would you reccomend to apply this fix? will I have problems if doing so? Anyone has tested this and used this fix?
Thanks in advance for your help and answers.
See ya!!