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As a good practice, you should always safely remove your USB drive from your Windows PC. Otherwise, the data on your USB flash drive may be corrupted. Not sure how to safely remove your USB flash drive? Here are five ways.

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In this section:

Use system tray

The most common way to safely eject your USB drive is to use the system tray. In the system tray, click the "Up Arrow" icon to expand the menu. Next, double-click the “USB” icon.

In the sub-menu that appears, select the option "Eject ". The text that appears will depend on the type of USB flash drive you are using.

Select your USB drive to eject.

You can now safely remove your USB flash drive.

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Use File Explorer

If you are working in File Explorer, you have the option to remove your USB flash drive. In the left pane of File Explorer, find and right-click your USB device. In the context menu that appears, select "Eject".

Find and eject your USB drive from File Explorer.

Simple, no?

Use the Settings app

There are a ton of different things you can do from the Settings app, including removing your USB drive. First, press “Windows + I” to open the Settings app. Once open, select "Bluetooth and devices" from the left pane.

Bluetooth option and devices.

On the next screen, click on the “Devices” option at the top of the window.

The Devices option in Settings.

Next, in the "Other devices" group, click on the three vertical dots next to your USB flash drive, then select "Remove device" from the one-option pop-up menu.

Locate and eject the USB drive from Settings.

You can now safely remove your USB device.

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Use Disk Management

You can also safely remove your USB drive from Disk Management. Open Disk Management by right-clicking the Windows icon to open the Power User menu. Then select “Disk Management from the menu.

Open Disk Management from the Power User menu.

Next, locate the drive you want to eject (in this case, your USB drive). Right-click on it, then select “Eject” from the context menu.

Delete the USB drive from Disk Management.

You can now remove your USB key.

Use Windows Terminal

If you don't have a GUI (like in a Hyper-V server), or just want to feel like a hacker, you can remove the Windows Terminal USB. Open the Windows terminal, then run this command:

diskpart

Run the diskpart command.

A new terminal will open and you will be in the C:WINDOWSsystem32diskpart.exe file path. Before removing the drive, you need to know its volume number. To do this, run this command:

list volume

A list of volumes will appear. First, find your USB drive under "Label", then write down its volume number in the "Volume ###" column. In our case, it is volume 3.

Find your USB volume number.

Now you need to select the volume number of your USB drive. To do this, run the select volume <number> ordered. In our example, we would run:

select volume 3

A message will appear indicating that you have selected the volume.

Run the command to select a volume.

With the USB flash drive volume selected, run this command to eject it:

remove all remove

You will receive a message that you have successfully deleted the drive letter or mount point, and unmounted and disconnected the volume. In other words, you can now safely remove the USB drive.

Run the command to eject the USB drive.

There. With so many different ways to safely eject your USB drive, there's really no reason you should risk corrupting your data by deleting it when you shouldn't. But, if you want to save a few clicks and time, there's a way to never have to safely "remove" your drive again.

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