Does Windows do any kind of file system checks or block sorting
automatically on NTFS volumes when you first plug them in (i.e., through
a USB connection)? I had this situation where I plugged a drive into a
Windows box, then I tried to eject it, but the ejection process stalled
(I could select eject but nothing would happen). After 10 minutes of
no-response, I gave up and just unplugged the drive, which I thought
would be safe because I had not actually done any writes as far as I
knew. THEN the Windows box finally gave me an error saying not to unplug
the device because ejection is in progress, and afterwards the files on
the drive were corrupted — still there, but full of IO errors.
Obvious lesson is don't unplug anything until Windows has given the okay
(or better, never attach anything to a Windows box), but I am also
trying to understand what might have happened on the technical level to
corrupt the data.
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