The Cypress chip is the bios for the removable hard drive, inside the
enclosure's interface card. Its not part of the hard drive.

You have SP1 or higher with XP. That's why no problems on the other two
hard drives.

You can remove a thumb drive in 98SE and XP as long as they are not being
accessed at the time. ME and XP have the safe to remove icon for these
thumb drives, but not 98SE. ME requires you use this icon for safe removal
before shutting down or restarting. Most thumb drive makers provide this in
their instructions for operation/installation.

Don't use hard drives in excess of 128 GB formatted capacity in 98SE or ME.

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"mike" wrote in message
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I have usb hard drives, flash card readers and thumb drives.

I have ONE hard drive with a Cypress chip that behaves properly in
Win98SE.
I get an icon in the system tray that lets me safely remove the drive.
None of the other devices cause the icon to appear. (they all behave
properly in winXP). I've installed the unofficial service pack.

The flash card readers let me right click and eject the drive. But that
doesn't work on the thumb drives...although I've not YET had any data
corruption just ripping them out. I've loaded all the 98 software that
came with the drives.

I have trashed my hard drive on the two hard drives that don't enable
the safe removal icon. The drives are bigger than 137GB, so I can't just
scandisk them to fixup drive corruption. Scandisk thinks there's not
enough memory???? Is there a workaround for this? I have been able to
scan the drives on an XP system in a pinch.

Is there a registry tweek or a (free) utility that will make all the
hard drives safely removable in 98SE?
Thanks, mike

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