SusanCassidy said:
I have had problems on Windows 2000 - messed up external drive when not properly ejecting (because it was hung up!), newer operating systems might be less problematic, but why take chances? I'd hate to mess up my Kindle!
99% of the time I connect my Kindle to my laptop which is running Vista. If I wait for the silver blinking boxes to stop and disconnect my Kindle, all is well.
Once, I connected my Kindle to my ancient desktop running Windows 2000. Again, I just waited for the blinking boxes to stop and disconnected. Windows 2000 gave me all the usual messages about disconnecting before I was supposed to and so on. I should have paid attention because after that, my Kindle went into a time warp, with a home screen from 4 months earlier. Books, samples, etc. were all gone. They weren't gone, when I looked at the files (again, connected to the laptop). A hard reset (with the paperclip) fixed everything but I did have a momentary panic attack.
Since then, I've only used the laptop to connect to the Kindle and haven't had a problem since.
L