Safely remove/eject in context menu for USB HDD?


  1. RoseRodent
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    Safely remove/eject in context menu for USB HDD?


    One of the few things I liked about Vista was that you didn't have to go to a little tray icon to click to get your drives back, you could just right-click and "safely remove" was in the context menu. It's there for my USB sticks, or at least eject which will fulfil the same need. I like my icons hidden which makes it a pain to go looking for it to eject my USB drive - can I do something easy to put this option back? Also, can you shuffle up the menu? Who thought that putting "eject" right next to "format" was a good plan? I'm prone to little mishaps with the mouse and this is one I can live without!
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  3. logicearth
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    Eject is in the context menu of a thumbdrive...it is on mine anyways.
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  4. RoseRodent
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    logicearth said:
    Eject is in the context menu of a thumbdrive...it is on mine anyways.
    It is on mine also, I just realised for some reason it has not copy-pasted my whole message so it doesn't make sense, I meant to eject/remove an external USB HDD. Western Digital 2.5in to be specific.
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  6. Lemur
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    Systems 1 and 2: Windows 7 Enterprise x64, Win 8 Developer
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    You should be able to eject any usb device, hd or otherwise.

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