Hi everybody,

My laptop has a partitioned HD, I only use system restore on the laptop, I don't I slave any programs, and the laptop alone essentially always has a backup power supply (the battery) and/or if running on battery only, the machine's set to shutdown at a certain power level.

So for my operating conditions and drives uses, the EHD's seem best set for 'quick removal' and the laptop is best set at 'enable write caching'.

But there are some nuances I'd sure appreciate explained. One's why the 'quick' and
'performance' tickables almost always ghost when ticking the option for 'Enable' (that only occurs on laptop's partitoned drives).

Also I'm not sure how I did it, but I somehow managed ticking (for one of my partitoned laptop drives) both writing caching tickable's ('performance' and 'enable'). Any comment there appreciated as well.

And as confusing as it was when I went over the setting, pretty much experimenting, irregardless of ghosting or not, and irregardless of how any might have been ticked, is it possible that I somehow managed to have all three tickables display for the subject policies of an EHD?

Lastly, while I suspect it is trivial, why the heck do varying words in Windows windows have a letter underscored (eg; tthe "r" in 'Enable write')?

Regards and hap-e-trails, Steve Hopper

Almost forgot what got me on this jag.

My onboard memory stick is listed as a "device with removable storage" in My Computer, and irrespective of how I set it (ie; as it only affords 'quick', 'performance' tickables while 'Enable' is ghosted but ticked), the memory stick's not listing in the Safely Remove Device utility.

So given that I'm discounting power as a potential issue, and I've ticked 'performance', it should still be safe to eject (ie; only the unticked 'quick' option mentions safe removal w/o using the safe removal icon)?

Regards and hap-e-trails, Steve Hopper

Can't believe how something relatively this simple, could be so obtuse (but I'm claiming diminished capacity due to an all-nighter), but if I understand the potential hazard of the EHD's losing power and I discount that, primarily because any time that might happen I'd know it, would simply overwrite and/or re-upload it, then objectively I could in relative safety, set the EHD's for 'performance', right?

Regards and hap-e-trails, Steve Hopper