I experienced the "improper device removal" once last week for two external hard drives. I tried apple disk utility immediately and it wouldn't recognize the drives. I feared the worst, but on rebooting my machine they reappeared undamaged. Crandall On 11-Apr-07, at 5:21 PM, Martin Albinger wrote: > The last several days (since the last Apple update? - not sure) I have > been getting random Improper device removal errors and my cd-rom icon > disappears from the desktop. I find that I have to reboot the > computer > in order to get the drive to function. > > Has any one else experienced this? if so Ii there a preference file or > something similar that is corrupted? If yes which is the likely > culprit's name and where is it located? If no what could be causing > the > problem? > > I've tried searching generally for 'OS X device removal error > dialogue' > or variations on that theeme but have found nothing. > > Martin > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > For information about MUGLO: http://www.freewebs.com/muglo > ----------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- For information about MUGLO: http://www.freewebs.com/muglo -----------------------------------------------------------