thanks a lot for those words.. but I can't bet, there are times when I shut down the system before removing my flash drives because they won't "eject safely". at times, I try to eject it but it keeps tellin me there are programs using the disk and there are really no programs using the disk... so inorder to avoid forcefully pulling it out from the pc, I simply shut down and remove them.not knowin that is also a wrong practice...

Please what can I do to eject it safely when it tells me there are programs accessing the flash drive and when am sure there are no programs on or runnig from the flash...

I'm not actually after recoverin the data on flash. but am after how to prevent that frequent prompt to format a flash drive when I've been using it for long..

it's really anoying.. thanks