How to Safely Remove USB Flash Drives From a Chromebook Joe Fedewa You’ve probably heard about how you should always safely “eject” a USB drive before unplugging it. On Windows, it’s a very simple process, but what about on a Chromebook? Should you still do it? How does it work? Why You Should “Eject” Before Unplugging Before we talk about how to safely remove a USB drive from a Chromebook, you might want to know why it’s important. RELATED: The main thing you risk when yanking out a USB drive is data loss. If data is being written to the drive, you could interrupt that process ...