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Sometimes windows detects the USB stick but doesn’t assign it a drive letter. You can open up disk management and manually assign one.
“There’s a problem with your USB storage device”
*Continues to work just fine, just as if there is no problem*
Its because you didnt eject beforehand and theres orphaned inodes or data blocks
No, it’s because I use it on linux and windows can tell. Windows hates me for my freedom.
Oh right that.
Sorry its been a while since I’ve used windows
“You need to manually eject your USB drive before you remove it” - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
Also, half the time when you try to eject it, it says “device busy” even though I’m not transferring files. Well, best of luck with that bud, I’m busy too yank
That’s because some program still accesses it
Could be just your file browser (“explorer”) that has a window open with the content of that device, or maybe some program has a hiccup and didn’t free it’s file pointer
Windows is great because if you plug your mouse into one USB port then maybe you move the mouse to another, it completely forgets that mouse ever existed and is like “setting up device!”
Bro, you know what this is.
well technically… USB initialization isn’t that simple, when you change which port it’s plugged into, it’s numerated under that new memory space, so from the computers perspective, it’s a different number, it’s a different device.
Is that just obfuscated on other platforms (like MacOS)? I don’t think I’ve ever had a Mac get “confused” by a device by changing its port.
Could be like Linux where a lot of drivers are in the kernel and it doesn’t need to add drivers every time you plug something in
