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Why does Windows (e.g., 64-bit 7) always prompt me to scan and fix myspecific USB flash drives?



 
 
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Old February 12th 17, 07:17 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default Why does Windows (e.g., 64-bit 7) always prompt me to scan and fix myspecific USB flash drives?

I always tell Windows to eject my USB flash drives before physically
pulling them out. When I do a scan, it finds no problems.

Thank you in advance.
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Old February 14th 17, 05:08 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default Why does Windows (e.g., 64-bit 7) always prompt me to scan andfix my specific USB flash drives?

On 2017-02-12 13:17, Ant wrote:

I always tell Windows to eject my USB flash drives before physically
pulling them out. When I do a scan, it finds no problems.
Thank you in advance.


I had the same problem on some drive, Windows always wanted to do a
scan, and never found anything. I junked it and got another pen drive,
problem solved...

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Old February 14th 17, 03:26 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
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Default Why does Windows (e.g., 64-bit 7) always prompt me to scan and fix my specific USB flash drives?

"Ant" wrote

|I always tell Windows to eject my USB flash drives before physically
| pulling them out. When I do a scan, it finds no problems.
|

That drives me crazy, too, and I keep meaning
to fix it, but haven't got around to dealing with it.
I actually get two idiotic messages. One asks me
what I want Explorer to do. The other suggests
a scan. They always come back, regardless of
how I respond.

This might help:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../cc938275.aspx

That seems to be the solution on XP. NoDriveTypeAutorun
is what TweakUIXP uses to stop autorun on drives, which is
a good idea for general security on removable drives and disks.**

Shell Hardware Detection service can also be stopped.

I haven't actually explored any of this on Win7, but if
you do I'd love to hear what works.


** Here's a link to a detailed explanation of the setting.
Note that the first section of this article is actually just a lot
of gibberish about how to get updates that will add the
setting to Group Policy Editor, but if you keep reading
you'll find instructions to set it by hand down below.
I'm posting the Google cache link for those who don't
want to enable script at microsoft.com. MS have taken
to blocking their support pages entirely unless script is
allowed to run.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...&gbv=1&ct=clnk






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Old February 14th 17, 07:31 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default Why does Windows (e.g., 64-bit 7) always prompt me to scan andfix my specific USB flash drives?

On 2/14/2017 6:26 AM, Mayayana wrote:
"Ant" wrote

|I always tell Windows to eject my USB flash drives before physically
| pulling them out. When I do a scan, it finds no problems.
|

That drives me crazy, too, and I keep meaning
to fix it, but haven't got around to dealing with it.
I actually get two idiotic messages. One asks me
what I want Explorer to do. The other suggests
a scan. They always come back, regardless of
how I respond.

This might help:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../cc938275.aspx

That seems to be the solution on XP. NoDriveTypeAutorun
is what TweakUIXP uses to stop autorun on drives, which is
a good idea for general security on removable drives and disks.**

Shell Hardware Detection service can also be stopped.

I haven't actually explored any of this on Win7, but if
you do I'd love to hear what works.


** Here's a link to a detailed explanation of the setting.
Note that the first section of this article is actually just a lot
of gibberish about how to get updates that will add the
setting to Group Policy Editor, but if you keep reading
you'll find instructions to set it by hand down below.
I'm posting the Google cache link for those who don't
want to enable script at microsoft.com. MS have taken
to blocking their support pages entirely unless script is
allowed to run.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...&gbv=1&ct=clnk






Have you verifed that the capacity of the thumb drive matches the label?
Fake flash drives might fail the OS test.
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Old February 14th 17, 08:04 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Why does Windows (e.g., 64-bit 7) always prompt me to scan andfix my specific USB flash drives?

Mayayana wrote:
"Ant" wrote

|I always tell Windows to eject my USB flash drives before physically
| pulling them out. When I do a scan, it finds no problems.
|

That drives me crazy, too, and I keep meaning
to fix it, but haven't got around to dealing with it.
I actually get two idiotic messages. One asks me
what I want Explorer to do. The other suggests
a scan. They always come back, regardless of
how I respond.

This might help:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/.../cc938275.aspx

That seems to be the solution on XP. NoDriveTypeAutorun
is what TweakUIXP uses to stop autorun on drives, which is
a good idea for general security on removable drives and disks.**

Shell Hardware Detection service can also be stopped.

I haven't actually explored any of this on Win7, but if
you do I'd love to hear what works.


** Here's a link to a detailed explanation of the setting.
Note that the first section of this article is actually just a lot
of gibberish about how to get updates that will add the
setting to Group Policy Editor, but if you keep reading
you'll find instructions to set it by hand down below.
I'm posting the Google cache link for those who don't
want to enable script at microsoft.com. MS have taken
to blocking their support pages entirely unless script is
allowed to run.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...&gbv=1&ct=clnk


My advice would be:

1) Do a scan with the repair box ticked.

2) Review the Winlogon entry in Event Viewer which
corresponds to the CHKDSK log output. In it, will be
details about what argument a couple of OSes are having.
I've had something involving metadata $UpCase being
modified by two OSes, to suit their own personality.
(Each OS does CHKDSK. Each finds an issue with $UpCase,
ad infinitum.)

I've also disabled things like Hibernation and System Restore,
to stop behaviors like this. Salt to taste. But, at least
give CHKDSK a real chance to finish. You could even do it
from WinPE (boot the installer, user the Command Prompt
window), to give it a good chance to work. The problem with
the WinPE, is figuring out the partition labels. For key
partitions, I put an empty file at the top level, as a
quick way to identify them. For example, this OS would
have "IMWinXP.txt" at the top level, as a tag.

HTH,
Paul
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Old February 15th 17, 12:41 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
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Default Why does Windows (e.g., 64-bit 7) always prompt me to scan and fix my specific USB flash drives?

"Paul" wrote

| 1) Do a scan with the repair box ticked.
|
Of course I've tried that. It doesn't matter.
It always finds no problems and then wants
to scan again next time.

With this discussion I decided to try an experiment.
I disabled Shell Hardware Detection, set
NoDriveTypeAutorun to H25 and disabled autoplay
in Control Panel. Then I tried two different sticks.
Blissful peace.

I had always assumed Shell Hardware Detection
was involved with seeing plugged in drives, but
it's not needed for that. It's only for autoplay, which
I don't want enabled anyway.

Some sources say Shell Hardware Detection is
required for WIA (Windows Image Acquisition). I
don't know where that idea come from. It's not
listed as a dpendency and I have a script based
image editor that uses WIA, which works jusyt fine
with Shell Hardware Detection disabled.


 




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