USB drives PCLinuxOS and Windows 7 scannning

[Georgetoon]

I have a USB drive (a WD Passport) that I take back and forth to the office.  Files get copied to this drive from a Windows 7 system and then copied to my PCLinuxOS system.

When plugging the USB drive into PCLinuxOS, everything goes well.  I just wait for the drive to come up, open in Dolphin, and begin copying files.

wehn pluggin into Windows 7, ever single time, Windows 7 asks, "Do you want to scan and fix My Passport (E:)?  There might be a problem with some files on this device or disc. This can happen if you remove the device or disc before al files have been written to it."

then I get two choices:

"Scan and Fix (Recommended) thsi wil prevent future problems when copying files to this device or disc."

and 

"Continue without scanning"

I always select "Continue without scanning."  I'm reluctant to do the fix.  Only because this message never comes up in Windows XP.  It only comes up in Win7. I'm thinking that nothing is wrong with the drive at all.  It's just a way of Windows 7 to gain control of the drive.  Because, it doesn't happen to this drive only.  It happens to every USB drive I've plugged in that has also been plugged into PCLinuxOS.

[menotu]

Hi georgetoon - if memory serves, do you right click on the USB icon when in Windows 7 and select "safely remove media" (or something similar) before unplugging the drive as it may not be closing it down properly thus the error message when connecting it again.

[Georgetoon]

Hi georgetoon - if memory serves, do you right click on the USB icon when in Windows 7 and select "safely remove media" (or something similar) before unplugging the drive as it may not be closing it down properly thus the error message when connecting it again.

Saaaaayyyyy...you're right.  I just noticed this icon in the system tray for unmounting a drive.  Talk about trying to be more like Linux! 

Anyhow, I unmounted it hit and remounted.  Message still comes up.  i think now I'll scan and fix now that you've pointed out the unmount function.

[Dragynn]

Just a thought, but could it be simply a matter of a linux file or two that stays on the drive, and the windows box doesn't recognize that format and so defaults to an error message and wants to wipe them?

[Georgetoon]

Just a thought, but could it be simply a matter of a linux file or two that stays on the drive, and the windows box doesn't recognize that format and so defaults to an error message and wants to wipe them?

I don't think so. Then again, I may have dragged something over for safe keeping for my Linux box.

[T6]

i see that message all the time with my fat32 4gbs usb drive

i unmounted it improperly and this is the result

i don't know if you use fat or ntfs in that wd passport hard disk, probably the second, i'm kinda negative with ntfs so if you can, do a backup first before doing that checkdisk on the device, it probably has errors on files or filestructure and ntfs fixing errors sometimes screw things up badly

this is the worst case, in normal circumstances system does a quick check, complains for nothing or for something and that's it until you remove the device improperly again 

[Ferdes Fides]

I always select "Continue without scanning."  I'm reluctant to do the fix.  Only because this message never comes up in Windows XP.  It only comes up in Win7. I'm thinking that nothing is wrong with the drive at all.  It's just a way of Windows 7 to gain control of the drive.  Because, it doesn't happen to this drive only.  It happens to every USB drive I've plugged in that has also been plugged into PCLinuxOS.

I have an NTFS partition on my portable drive which I try to use for files relevant to Windows and Linux.
Linux doesn't care but Windows says I have index problems from time to time and chkdsk corrects
them.  Linux doesn't care and the files are still good.   So yes that's what happens.  Nothing wrong
with the drive, some indexing Linux adds appears to confuse Windows and chkdsk.  But so far the files
are still good.  Need to get out of this routine eventually, keep Linux files with Linux drives and Windows
files with Windows files completely.  But if the files get there they get there.


Patrick013

[Georgetoon]

I always select "Continue without scanning."  I'm reluctant to do the fix.  Only because this message never comes up in Windows XP.  It only comes up in Win7. I'm thinking that nothing is wrong with the drive at all.  It's just a way of Windows 7 to gain control of the drive.  Because, it doesn't happen to this drive only.  It happens to every USB drive I've plugged in that has also been plugged into PCLinuxOS.

I have an NTFS partition on my portable drive which I try to use for files relevant to Windows and Linux.
Linux doesn't care but Windows says I have index problems from time to time and chkdsk corrects
them.  Linux doesn't care and the files are still good.   So yes that's what happens.  Nothing wrong
with the drive, some indexing Linux adds appears to confuse Windows and chkdsk.  But so far the files
are still good.  Need to get out of this routine eventually, keep Linux files with Linux drives and Windows
files with Windows files completely.  But if the files get there they get there.


Patrick013

Wish I could. I'm between two platforms. windows at the office and Linux at home.

[The Chief]

Wish I could. I'm between two platforms. windows at the office and Linux at home.

DropBox works wonderfully on either/both...

[Georgetoon]

Wish I could. I'm between two platforms. windows at the office and Linux at home.

DropBox works wonderfully on either/both...

I may give that look.  Thanks.

[Ferdes Fides]

Wish I could. I'm between two platforms. windows at the office and Linux at home.

DropBox works wonderfully on either/both...

I may give that look.  Thanks.

Then you password protect the files, should work OK then.


Patrick013