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when using usb drives you need to be careful about the write caching.. normally I belive it should be disabled since when you get a sudden switch off whatever was in the cache gets lost. That's why powering off can take some time too, windows is writing everything that is in the cache to disk as a housekeeping task. I have noticed that my USB drive doesn't show up in the safely remove hardware when I boot up with the uSB connected at power on. I suspect it might be treating the drive as "normal"
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