So while mucking around I noticed that my external hard drive is set to 'Optimize for Quick Removal' which disables write caching for the drive. Windows tells me this means it is safe to just yank the ...
As in the description. I've had this problem for a while, but now, I just actually really need to copy some files to an USB drive. I can't format USB drives, I can't delete files and I can't copy to ...