How to get rid of "Scan and fix" message on a removable USB disk?

RolandJS said:

That's one reason I was hoping backups existed BEFORE all of this happened.

:)

Relax, fellows, it's being more an annoying inconvenience than anything else. I really don't think I am going to lose stuff on this disk.

I am doing a format on a client disk right now and as soon I move data back to his computer I will fix the disk and see what happens.

I will keep you posted.

Roland is right. BACKUP is a MUST HAVE. Failures happens all the time, specially on external HDD.

Ok, now I know that I absolutely cannot rely on Windows check disk. What I feared happened: it wiped my disk.

I put it to check the disk and as it was for almost 4 hours doing it and I had to reboot my PC I clicked the 'cancel' button (if there is a cancel button is because it can be used right?). So it stopped the checking and when I tried to access my disk it said 'Acess denied' and now I cannot reach anything on it.

Nice.

I completely agree about not using chekdisk. I had all my music video on a 1.5 TB Seagate external HDD, and a backup of my Pink Floyd collection there as well. I got one of these scan and fix messages and ran it....and it scrambled all my data. Most things don't play at all, and the ones that do I get fragments of Pink Floyd when playing a Metallica video. NEVER run chkdsk. Take my word for it

LoL, yeah, I never will use 'wreckdisk' command again!

After almost two years since I started this thread (when I had a whole disk screwed by this nasty tool) I can tell with absolutely certain that such error messages are false positives. The reason is I have this flash drive that gives the very same error message EVERY TIME I plug it into my desktop (and I do this once in a day Mon-Sun, therefore it was almost 800 times since then). I never bothered do fix it and it's still working perfectly.

So the lesson learned is: when one of your disks give you a sign that it's about to crash simply back up the entire data, reformat the disk and bring data back. Don't even waste your time with MS crap.

In fact I have numerous times run the chkdsk utility on flash drives because they are usually empty when I plug them in, and you know what? No errors are found. Ever.



BTW this thread didn't help me stop the messages

HeywoodPeace said:

BTW this thread didn't help me stop the messages

Indeed! At least we didn't get any of those typical stupid answers posted by a smart ass guru: "Why would you want to stop Windows to alert you about errors found on your disk, SIR?"

The suggestion to block chkdsk on certain lettered drives is interesting, but a flash drive changes letters depending what slot it's plugged into and how many other things are plugged in as well


Nice to see how quick this thread was answered. When I posted the first time I was warned the thread had been inactive for 695 days and I would likely not get much response.



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