Safely remove external hard drive before i shutdown?

[danimaltheanimal13]

does the drive get safely removed during the shut down process? or should i safely remove the drive then shut down? does it even matter?

 

[CaedenV]

the shutdown process will disconnect all drives and devices safely. Sleep may or may not (depending on your version of Windows).

Keep in mind that if you are on a Windows PC there is a fair amount of fault tolerance and so long as you are not actively writing to the device while removing it then there is little to no risk of corrupting anything. Mac OSX will complain a lot if you do things improperly, but (for the most part) it shares many of Window's protections against corruption.

 

[kajabla]

Yep. All is well.

 

[danimaltheanimal13]

Best answer selected by danimaltheanimal13.

 

[danimaltheanimal13]

Thanks for the help again guys, this message board is nothing but helpful