So many times, it might have happened to you that icon for safely remove hardware disappeares from the menu that causes problem in removing USB drive. One should follow some tips for removing USB drive safely.

It’s not safe to pull out USB drive directly without following proper procedure of ejection. Doing such foolishness may either affect your USB drive or USB port. All USB drives have some settings that inform operating system about the optimization of their usage. In order to view it right click on the USB drive icon present in My Computer and select properties. There you will see hardware tab, click on that tab and select USB drive from the list and then click on properties button. Then you will see policies tab that enables write caching on the disk but the only problem with this option is if there is a power failure, all your data will either get corrupted or get deleted.

Another option that you can go with is to optimize USB drive for quick removal. By optimizing it, you can actually disable write caching on the disk feature. By doing so you can disconnect the USB drive without even using Safely Remove Hardware icon. Another setting is optimization for performance. This setting enables write caching on the disk feature in order to improve the performance of the disk. In this case, you have to use Safely Remove Hardware option in order to remove your USB drive safely. Now what if you want to remove the USB drive when Safely Remove Hardware icon disappears from the menu, although USB drive is optimized for the performance? There are several methods to perform this operation and you can apply these steps in Windows XP, Windows Vista operating system too.

Very first method is to click on Start>Run and type RunDll32.exe shell32.dll, Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll. This code will bring the same dialog box that used to come when we click on the safely remove icon present in the system tray. You can click in this dialog box to safely remove the USB drive from USB port. It’s not possible for everyone to remember such a long and typical code and for all such user there is one more method that can be used to safely remove USB drive. For that Right Click on My Computer and then click on Manage. Then select USB Mass Storage Device then right click on this option and disable it. Once this much of work is done, remove USB drive and then enable that option again. If due to some reason you forget to enable it again, you will not be able to use any of the external drives, so make sure that you don’t forget doing this.

Another perfect method is to create a batch file having the content RunDll32.exe shell32.dll, Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll and whenever you will execute this batch file, dialog box will appear on the screen where you can stop USB drive. You can also create a shortcut for this batch file and can use it whenever you want.

If you don’t want to do any of these methods, last option left with you is to use USB Removing software. These software’s work best in almost every situation related to USB drive. Search for the best software’s available and download it.