"Pavel A." wrote:
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> Maybe this corruption was caused by the internal cache of the drive
> or drive powered down too early - not by anything on host side.
>
> --PA[/color]

Since the drive has an external power supply (not powered by USB) and I
unplugged ONLY the USB cable, this means that the corruption was not caused
by a power failure, or internal cache of the drive. Since Vista prompted me
to unplug the drive because "it is safe to remove", then I assume the drive
is idle and SAFE TO REMOVE!! My operating system reassured me to remove it,
that's why I got the OS, right? I never had this problem with XP and this
drive in several PCs and locations!