Linux Honestly now, is Ubuntu always this dysfunctional?

So... it really isn't working properly, if you can copy things fine without sync and eject magic and I can't. You are talking about Ubuntu, right?

Also, I never bother unmounting or safely removing flash drives in Linux and Windows, and I've never had a problem any of the hundreds of times I've done that. As long as I'm not actively writing to it, no harm done.

 

Also, by simply emptying your trash on Ubuntu, you would also have deleted the hidden .trash file on your Voyager USB Stick.

 

That's good to know, but I was in a live environment and didn't even consider that. Hm.

Anyways, since this thread is much less dead than I thought it would have been by now I decided to go back and try everything again. The good news is that I did manage to get my backup drive to work and I have all my stuff safe and sound, but the odd part is that I had to intentionally muck up my hard drive boot order to make it work - instead of setting my OS drive as the first drive, I had to make it my storage drive. I tried booting from the new drive and the backup drive before this, and both of them gave me the same DISK BOOT ERROR message from before, so I really have no idea what's going on.

On a possibly related note, my storage drive is on SATA port 0 and my OS drive is on port 1 - could this have anything to do with it? When there's no third drive Windows boots fine from port 1, my OS drive, so again I have no idea what's going on.

 

'Fraid not, both Linux and Windows will background (cache) the writing on big jobs so it looks like its done but it may be the os is just waiting on a gap in resources to finish the write. Some times after moving a couple of gigs to the flash disk it'll take over a minute to "safely remove"/unmount all the time the little light flashing since the os is forced to finish the write and clean up.

 

About deleting stuff while in Ubuntu, always use shift+del to make sure it gets deleted and not placed in the trash can "pending to be deleted".

Now it was like a year ago since I last used Ubuntu, but I seriously had problems when I copied stuff from my download folder on ubuntu, onto my hdd and then I plugged the hdd into XP. The problem for me arose when I deleted stuff from the hdd in XP and plugged it into my system while it was on Ubuntu. Ubuntu still counted the invisible "deleted" stuff as files, effectively shrinking the hdds storage capacity each time and as that was my only large hdd with all important files, I really got fkd as I couldn't reformat it

When first experiencing Ubuntu you really gotta google every step you take, but I suppose if Ubuntu was your first OS then XP might be the "dysfunctional" OS