Chkdsk for a Flash Drive

Hello,

When I run chkdsk d: /f for my flash drive XP tells me that the drive is mounted, so I select Yes to dismount it, then it tells me it is in use by another process and will run at restart, so I select Yes to run at restart.

Then at restart it completely ignores the flash drive and does not run chkdsk d: /f as it said it would do, it completely ignores that and boots right into XP.

Any suggestions ?

Thanks in advance for your replies.


Patrick013

 

chkdsk for flash drive

I don't use that because it has no display of the process or number of fixes, etc., ever. So, I don't really trust it. But, it does run...it just doesn't do or say anything. Just says chkdsk complete, with all the options checked.


Patrick013

 

I hope you're right. I plan to use the flash drive to completely backup Windows, format C:, and then restore the backup files to C:, and any problems with the Flash Drive during this process and I have no data or files to use for restore.

When I use this flash drive at school sometimes the files disappear, I get access denied messages, and other strange events, which nobody at the school can explain either. So I need to stay out of the school computer and really double check this flash drive before I proceed with this backup project.
Don't ever try to use a flash drive at a school computer to do your homework or download extremely important files is the best I can say. Some file or folder or drive ownership conflicts appear to cause major problems at times, and really shouldn't, because that's the main advantage and flexibility of using a flash drive. To use on different computers for file transfer and download, isn't it ? But when you do some settings appear to change at times causing the drive to perform erratically.

If you think this drive is clean and free of operational errors or bad settings I'll proceed with this backup then.

Thanks for the response.


Patrick013

 

Why don't you just format the USB drive ?

If you are going to backup ALL your data onto flash drive, I suggest you also create a DVD backup or create another backup on another flash drive.

 

The flash drive has a fresh format from last night. Right now at the library one computer tells me it has to restart because the driver for the flash drive isn't installed. Across the street at another computer all it says is "drive unreadable and corrupted" which is a pretty unhappy message to see seeing that we assume the drive is perfectly OK from Windows-Tools-CHKDSK. Doesn't build my confidence at all.

Still cannot use these drives on several computers to save things reliably. This isn't the only flash drive I have but is typical of the errors and lack of performance it causes below what is expected when used in this manner.

Any suggestions ?


Patrick013

 

Dump the drive. No format or chkdsk is going to get it back.