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Originally Posted by Arne
Unrelated question: I have a 44pin IDE Amiga HDD connected to Win7 via USB adapter. When I shut down operations for the day, should I just yank the USB, or properly unmount ? I currently yank it as I don't trust Win7 touching it. I can hear the head parking safely (I assume) when I yank.
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For the love of all that is cute and fun on this planet please unmount.
You will lose data if you do otherwise.
Windows 7 knows exactly what it's doing in this case. Trust it.
I might have misunderstood your setup.
Is this an Amiga formatted drive? And why is it connected to your PC for? Just for the power or is the IDE ribbon connected too?
In any case Windows doesn't know anything about Amiga partitions and file systems so it will not attempt to modify the drive unless you ask it to format it.
I highly recommend unmounting though: assuming the drive will have enough time to park the heads if you cut the connection is a very risky gamble.