Figure 17: Removing External Hard Drive(s)
One or two dialog boxes will appear verifying which drive was attached to which channel (See
Figures 18)
Figure 18: Example Serial ATA hard drive removed from channel 0
Improperly Removing External Hard Drive(s)
Caution
: To prevent loss of data, save your work and close associated applications
before removing the external hard drive (applications need to be closed since they may
keep temporary working files open on the external hard drive). Always unmount the volumes
(eject or drag the volumes to trash) associated with an external hard drive before removing it.
If you do not properly unmount volumes before removing the associated hard drive(s), a
“
Device Removal
”
dialog box will appear (See Figure 19). This dialog box shows up as a
reminder to unmount volumes properly before disconnecting or removing external hard
drives. Failure to properly unmount volumes before disconnecting external hard drives may
result in lost data.
Figure 19: Improperly removing External Hard Drive(s)
Connecting and Immediately Removing External Hard Drive(s)
If you connect an external hard drive, then remove it without acknowledging it has been
added to the system, a dialog box will appear that explains no new hard drive(s) were
detected (See Figure 19).
