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

[yankleber]

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

I have four removable disks (USB) but one of them, EVERY time I plug it into the USB Windows shows a pop up asking if I want to "scan and fix the disk" or "continue without check".

I always click "continue without check" because I sincerely doesn't rely on Windows and imagine that the fix can instead to screw my disk.

How can I get rid of this message? Is safe to allow Windows to scan and fix my unit?

Thanks!

 

[samuria]

If it's asking to scan it's detecting a problem the only fix is to scan or you could face data loss

 

[Megahertz07]

I agree with Samuria.
Flash USB disk are usually formatted as Fat32 that are more sensitive to errors.
Run a check disk. Open a CMD window and type chkdsk x: /f where x is the letter assign to the flash disk

 

[yankleber]

I agree with Samuria.
Flash USB disk are usually formatted as Fat32 that are more sensitive to errors.
Run a check disk. Open a CMD window and type chkdsk x: /f where x is the letter assign to the flash disk

It's not a Flash USB disk. It's a 500GB HD. My concern is that allowing Windows to "fix" the errors it just mess up the whole crap. That's why I am asking it...

:huh:

 

[Megahertz07]

The advise is the same: Run a check disk. Open a CMD window and type chkdsk x: /f where x is the letter assign to the USB HDD.

 

[yankleber]

Thanks guys, I'll do that!

 

[RolandJS]

Thanks guys, I'll do that!

Do you have a backup of the data folders and files elsewhere before you attempt any scans and fixes?

 

[yankleber]

Do you have a backup of the data folders and files elsewhere before you attempt any scans and fixes?

Well, due to the STRONG CERTAIN that the other guys tells me to go ahead with the fix I thought that it wouldn't be necessary. But now that you are mentioning it I can see that I am correct to assume that Windows may crap things.

 

[Megahertz07]

Never seen a check disk loosing data but have seen some disks loosing ALL data due to logical errors.

 

[yankleber]

Never seen a check disk loosing data but have seen some disks loosing ALL data due to logical errors.

I see. Well it is giving this error for a long time and I didn't lose anything from it. It's more an annoying thing than anything else. This is a disk that I use to backup clients data when I am formatting/reinstalling Windows plus a software library. Nothing too fancy, and I have a copy of the software in another brick. Thanks for clarification.

 

[RolandJS]

Never seen a check disk loosing data but have seen some disks loosing ALL data due to logical errors.

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

 

[yankleber]

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.

 

[Megahertz07]

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

 

[yankleber]

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.

 

[HeywoodPeace]

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

 

[yankleber]

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.

 

[Paul Black]

Hi yankleber,

So the lesson learned is: when one of your disks gives you a sign that it's about to crash simply back up the entire data, reformat the disk and bring data back.

That is exactly what to do!

 

[HeywoodPeace]

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

 

[yankleber]

BTW this thread didn't help me stop the messages

:roflmao:

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?"

:roflmao:

 

[HeywoodPeace]

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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