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

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"Dave Rado" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:%23eVxAWNjGHA.3496@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi Kerry

"Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*a*m> wrote in message

| Who is the manufacturer? If they don't support Microsoft products then
maybe
| you should be looking at a different drive for use with Windows.

In my experience *no* hardware manufacturer supports any third party
software. My drive *is* supported by Windows, I only meant that it's
manufacturer doesn't provide free technical support on any third party
products - any more than Microsoft do.


| I just
| tried running chkdsk on a couple of different external USB drives on two
| computers with XP SP2 and had no problems. I don't have any SP1 computers
to
| test it on.

Please could you talk me through the exact procedure you followed? I though
chkdsk was a DOS program? Did you go to your drive's properties in Windows
Explorer, select the Tools tab, click "Check Now", and then select
"Automatically fix the system errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery of
bad sectors"? (If not, that's what I want to do). If so, are you saying that
it *didn't* ask you to restart your computer before it could continue?

Dave




"Supports" has 2 separate definitions in the context that is being discussed here.
Support can mean providing help if the third party software has problems with your product (very rare) or it can mean that your product is compatible with a particular third party product (supports the installation of that third party product).

--
Ronnie Vernon
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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