Taking out a storage device suddenly

[direwolf500]

For example, if you just instantly take the cable out of your external SSD, and say you're using it as your boot drive and your computer is idling on the desktop, what will it do?

[WhitetailAni]

Your OS will crash

But I don't think you can install Windows to an external drive

 

elephants

[direwolf500]

1 minute ago, ragnarok0273 said:

elephants

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[WhitetailAni]

 

[direwolf500]

Just now, ragnarok0273 said:

 

ah

[WhitetailAni]

Join the crusade!

[direwolf500]

Just now, ragnarok0273 said:

Join the crusade!

Alright

 

elephants

[tech.guru]

the biggest risk is file system damage and worst case corrupted MFT

corrupted MFT can cause data to be inaccessible

 

this is why devices safely ejected or system turned off first so the write cache would be flushed to disk.

[Coolmaster]

34 minutes ago, ragnarok0273 said:

But I don't think you can install Windows to an external drive

 

You can run Windows on an external drive https://www.pcworld.com/article/3185777/how-to-install-windows-on-an-external-drive.html

And MacOS and Linux too.