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Originally Posted by Anthraquinone
You probably know more than I do. I was thinking about turning the PC off and disconnecting the drive. I was worried that Windows may do some house keeping if the drive was left on. I amy well be wrong as well though.
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Not sure, but my Seagate external drive goes to sleep after a few minutes' inactivity. If I 'unmount' in Linux it stays asleep, but if I 'safely remove' in Windows it wakes up and there is some disk activity before I get the message that it can be removed. The only time I had an external HD failure, Windows reported that it could not write some file or other (it had a weird name with $ in it) when I clicked on 'safely remove'.