Hello,

I'm a bit confused with how to properly eject hardware from windows 7 onwards. Reasons being I used to normally pull it out and in most cases it's fine but sometimes data is corrupt

Scenario 1 - standard mass storage. Right click, eject. Done

Scenario 2 - device with multiple storage. Bottom right corner, eject the entire device done. Now it gets confusing

Sony Ericsson scenario mass storage - physically a device with 2 storage areas. Phone and phone card. Windows doesn't allow ejecting the device but does allow ejecting either storage device (phone/phone card) and this will unmount the entire device. So I ran further tests.

1 - if your writing to phone card, windows won't allow you to eject phone card. Makes sense however,

2 - if you eject phone while writing to phone card, phone is safely ejected but phone card isn't. The actual phone also says you have safely ejected. Except the phone card continues to write. You can cancel the write and eject. This will make windows claim it has safely ejected but the device is still visible to read and write to. Any ideas?

Tested on multiple Sony Ericsson devices.

I use USB Safely Remove which may or may not help you. It definitely makes things a bit more clearer for me and can help by letting you know which programs are preventing your device from being removed--handy for me since Windows doesn't tell you that info.

It has a 30-day evaluation period. Hope this helps!