Re: Any way to run scandisk on external USB drive?

Upgrade to WinXP SP2?

Ask the MFR of your external drive?

Tom

"Dave Rado" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If this is the wrong newsgroup to post this question to, please could
someone suggest a better one?

Thanks

Dave


"Dave Rado" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| Running Win XP SP1, I'm trying to run scandisk (via drive Properties +
Tools
| + Error-checking) on an external USB disk which requires Windows to be
| running before it can be seen by the system. Whenever I try to run
Scandisk
| it says "The disk check could not be performed because the disk check
| utility needs exclusive access to some Windows files on the disk. These
| files can be accessed only by restarting Windows. Do you want to
schedule
| this disk check to occur the next time you restart the computer?" If I
| select "Yes", the disk check does not run when I restart the computer
| because the system can't "see" the drive until Windows is running, by
which
| time it's too late for it to run! Is there any way to get around this
catch
| 22? Or is there any third party scandisk utility that's more intelligent
| about USB drives?
|
| Dave
|
|
|




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