> I have taken out thumb drives a number of times without "Safely
> removing the hardware."
> And not a single byte of info was corrupted.
>
> Me too. It's just that when I was about to do this on a friend's computer he
> warned me not to.
>
> Is this rather like suggesting to someone that if they travel in a car they
> might die? It's true, but not very likely.
>
> Rob

There is a freeware program called removedrive that you can get at
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/drivetools_e.html#removedrive

I have a batch file with this in it.

c:\backup\removedrive I: -L -H -W:1000

This would remove H: drive, loop until sucess, show open handles, and
waits 1000 milliseconds before closing.

Have a good week,
Andy