The problem is excactly what I tried to describe. For some reason, one day I
connected my USB device and the safely remove hardware icon did nor appeared
in the taskbar. When I had to disconnect the usb device (an Iomega flash
drive) I had no other option but to simply plug it off (without safely
removing it as I used to do).
When I do that, pc freezes and I have to restart.

(Note : Rightclicking on the drive icon in My Computer and clicking on Eject
option does not help.)


"Alan Edwards" wrote:

What same problem?
I have never had a taskbar icon with Win98 SE for any USB drives and
have no problem if I wait a few seconds after closing any of their
windows down before removing the drive.
What happens with you?

....Alan

--
Alan Edwards, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/index.html

In microsoft.public.win98.performance, Geo
wrote:

I do have the same problem. I use 2 usb devices (an external CDRW and a flash
drive). System recognizes both devices and everything works fine.

The problem is that I cannot safely remove them. (I have to shutdown before
unpluging).
The only problem is the missing taskbar icon.
Everything else seems to be OK.
Any ideas?