Safely remove hardware

I have a Full XP image and have the Safely Remove Hardware component
installed. The system detects when a USB stick is inserted and works fine
with it. But I never see the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the system tray
like I do in regular XP Pro. Is there another component or primitive that I
need? I do see some other things in the system tray such as the speaker
Volume icon.

Probably the problem is about the USB Boot Mass Storage Device Update
component. If you are using Full XP 2007 by Sean Liming, this component is
automatically included by the FULL XP - System section. I think this is a
mistake, because the USB Boot Mass Storage Device Update component is useful
only if you are deploying a USB boot image. the USB Boot Mass Storage Device
Update contain a special version of the file USBSTOR.SYS, different from the
classical XP Professional version. See this article for more details:

http://blogs.msdn.com/embedded/archi...using-usb.aspx

Best regards,

Francesco Gigante

"LarryW" wrote:

> I have a Full XP image and have the Safely Remove Hardware component
> installed. The system detects when a USB stick is inserted and works fine
> with it. But I never see the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the system tray
> like I do in regular XP Pro. Is there another component or primitive that I
> need? I do see some other things in the system tray such as the speaker
> Volume icon.
>
>

Hi Larry. Unfortunately, the solution shown below will not address the
original question. As Francesco mentioned, the USB Boot components are
meant specifically to enable the system to boot from a USB device, and part
of this solution is to cause XPe to treat USB flash drives as non-removable
devices (normally they are always seen as removable, and thus are treated
differently from non-removable media). This doesn't have any impact on the
"Safely Remove Hardware" functionality, however.

There is a component named "Safely Remove Hardware Program", which should
bring in the necessary components to add the requested functionality to your
runtime.
--
Matt Kellner
SDET, Microsoft Windows Embedded Team

This message is posted AS-IS, without any warranty, and confers no rights.


"Francesco Gigante" <Francesco Gigante@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:86483DA3-6EE3-4F23-B52D-AFFBAFBA32A8@microsoft.com...
>
> Probably the problem is about the USB Boot Mass Storage Device Update
> component. If you are using Full XP 2007 by Sean Liming, this component is
> automatically included by the FULL XP - System section. I think this is a
> mistake, because the USB Boot Mass Storage Device Update component is
> useful
> only if you are deploying a USB boot image. the USB Boot Mass Storage
> Device
> Update contain a special version of the file USBSTOR.SYS, different from
> the
> classical XP Professional version. See this article for more details:
>
> http://blogs.msdn.com/embedded/archi...using-usb.aspx
>
> Best regards,
>
> Francesco Gigante
>
> "LarryW" wrote:
>
>> I have a Full XP image and have the Safely Remove Hardware component
>> installed. The system detects when a USB stick is inserted and works
>> fine
>> with it. But I never see the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the system
>> tray
>> like I do in regular XP Pro. Is there another component or primitive
>> that I
>> need? I do see some other things in the system tray such as the speaker
>> Volume icon.
>>
>>

Actually, Francesco's response was exactly correct. I did have the "Safely
Remove Hardware Program" component but as long as the "USB Mass Storage Device
Update" component was in the design I would never get the 'safely remove' icon
in the system tray. Once I built without it, the icon shows and works
correctly.

In article <A0628768-42C7-42AF-849E-5094F43D8488@microsoft.com>, Matt Kellner
(MSFT) wrote:
> From: "Matt Kellner \(MSFT\)" <mattkell@online.microsoft.com>
> Subject: Re: Safely remove hardware
> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:19:33 -0700
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded
>
> Hi Larry. Unfortunately, the solution shown below will not address the
> original question. As Francesco mentioned, the USB Boot components are
> meant specifically to enable the system to boot from a USB device, and part
> of this solution is to cause XPe to treat USB flash drives as non-removable
> devices (normally they are always seen as removable, and thus are treated
> differently from non-removable media). This doesn't have any impact on the
> "Safely Remove Hardware" functionality, however.
>
> There is a component named "Safely Remove Hardware Program", which should
> bring in the necessary components to add the requested functionality to your
> runtime.
> --
> Matt Kellner
> SDET, Microsoft Windows Embedded Team
>
> This message is posted AS-IS, without any warranty, and confers no rights.
>
> "Francesco Gigante" <Francesco Gigante@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:86483DA3-6EE3-4F23-B52D-AFFBAFBA32A8@microsoft.com...
> >
> > Probably the problem is about the USB Boot Mass Storage Device Update
> > component. If you are using Full XP 2007 by Sean Liming, this component is
> > automatically included by the FULL XP - System section. I think this is a
> > mistake, because the USB Boot Mass Storage Device Update component is
> > useful
> > only if you are deploying a USB boot image. the USB Boot Mass Storage
> > Device
> > Update contain a special version of the file USBSTOR.SYS, different from
> > the
> > classical XP Professional version. See this article for more details:
> >
> > http://blogs.msdn.com/embedded/archi...using-usb.aspx
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Francesco Gigante
> >
> > "LarryW" wrote:
> >
> >> I have a Full XP image and have the Safely Remove Hardware component
> >> installed. The system detects when a USB stick is inserted and works
> >> fine
> >> with it. But I never see the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the system
> >> tray
> >> like I do in regular XP Pro. Is there another component or primitive
> >> that I
> >> need? I do see some other things in the system tray such as the speaker
> >> Volume icon.
> >>
> >>
>

Ohhh, okay. I must have misunderstood the original question, then. I
apologize for the confusion. I was under the (apparently mistaken)
impression that the Safely Remove Hardware icon would always appear even if
there were no devices currently "stoppable", but on further review, it looks
like that doesn't happen.

Glad you got it resolved, then.

--
Matt Kellner
SDET, Microsoft Windows Embedded Team

This message is posted AS-IS, without any warranty, and confers no rights.


"LarryW" <lwdaddio@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
news:VA.000000ad.00bef030@newsgroups.nospam...
> Actually, Francesco's response was exactly correct. I did have the
> "Safely
> Remove Hardware Program" component but as long as the "USB Mass Storage
> Device
> Update" component was in the design I would never get the 'safely remove'
> icon
> in the system tray. Once I built without it, the icon shows and works
> correctly.
>
> In article <A0628768-42C7-42AF-849E-5094F43D8488@microsoft.com>, Matt
> Kellner
> (MSFT) wrote:
>> From: "Matt Kellner \(MSFT\)" <mattkell@online.microsoft.com>
>> Subject: Re: Safely remove hardware
>> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 14:19:33 -0700
>> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.embedded
>>
>> Hi Larry. Unfortunately, the solution shown below will not address the
>> original question. As Francesco mentioned, the USB Boot components are
>> meant specifically to enable the system to boot from a USB device, and
>> part
>> of this solution is to cause XPe to treat USB flash drives as
>> non-removable
>> devices (normally they are always seen as removable, and thus are treated
>> differently from non-removable media). This doesn't have any impact on
>> the
>> "Safely Remove Hardware" functionality, however.
>>
>> There is a component named "Safely Remove Hardware Program", which should
>> bring in the necessary components to add the requested functionality to
>> your
>> runtime.
>> --
>> Matt Kellner
>> SDET, Microsoft Windows Embedded Team
>>
>> This message is posted AS-IS, without any warranty, and confers no
>> rights.
>>
>> "Francesco Gigante" <Francesco Gigante@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
>> in
>> message news:86483DA3-6EE3-4F23-B52D-AFFBAFBA32A8@microsoft.com...
>> >
>> > Probably the problem is about the USB Boot Mass Storage Device Update
>> > component. If you are using Full XP 2007 by Sean Liming, this component
>> > is
>> > automatically included by the FULL XP - System section. I think this is
>> > a
>> > mistake, because the USB Boot Mass Storage Device Update component is
>> > useful
>> > only if you are deploying a USB boot image. the USB Boot Mass Storage
>> > Device
>> > Update contain a special version of the file USBSTOR.SYS, different
>> > from
>> > the
>> > classical XP Professional version. See this article for more details:
>> >
>> > http://blogs.msdn.com/embedded/archi...using-usb.aspx
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> >
>> > Francesco Gigante
>> >
>> > "LarryW" wrote:
>> >
>> >> I have a Full XP image and have the Safely Remove Hardware component
>> >> installed. The system detects when a USB stick is inserted and works
>> >> fine
>> >> with it. But I never see the Safely Remove Hardware icon in the
>> >> system
>> >> tray
>> >> like I do in regular XP Pro. Is there another component or primitive
>> >> that I
>> >> need? I do see some other things in the system tray such as the
>> >> speaker
>> >> Volume icon.
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>
>