The Library's EIC Workstations are equipped with USB ports, making it possible to use a wide variety of USB devices. Most machines (such as the black Dell machines) have ports under a flip-up front cover at the front of the machine, while other machines only have ports on the back of the machines. When a USB storage device is plugged in, it will look like a disk drive, and folders and files work just the way they do with other drives*.
When you want to unplug the device, find the USB icon in the status area at the bottom right-hand part of the screen (aka system tray) and move the mouse pointer to it (see picture below):
Left-click the icon will bring up a small window that says "Safely remove USB mass storage device". Left-click this message and wait a few seconds for a pop-up window saying : "'XXX' device can now be safely removed from the system", where 'XXX' is the name of your device (e.g., a USB mass storage device).
NOTE: While many devices, such as memory sticks and digital camera card readers, will be recognized by Windows XP and work automatically, some may require drivers or additional software installed on the machine in order to be recognized. Please bear in mind that security settings on the Library's workstations may disallow the installation of such software, thereby preventing you from using your USB device.
** Some older machines may produce an error message if you attempt to use a "HI-SPEED" USB device on them. It is safe to suppress the message by closing it, or you can simply ignore it.
