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My friend's sister would be constantly corrupting her external hard drive because she would just yank the plug to remove her laptop from her desk.

In the short term, your friend should tell her that she won't fix it anymore (or should have, whatever).

In the long term, thats a design problem. Not that I know how to fix it, but the idea that you can't just disconnect is something that needs teaching. If we can find a way that people can disconnect hardware (e.g. USB drives) that would be a good thing.




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