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External devices (HDD, USB flash stick etc) are all "defect"

Jun 26, 2010 7:23PM PDT

Any device with memory that I stick into my new Win7 PC tells me "the data system might be damaged, do you wan to scan or continue".
So, now, after getting too annoyed about it, I started scanning.
It's been on it it for 18 hours now, and has done about 10% according to that green indication bar, of my 1TB HDD. Is that normal? I once selected "cancel", and the HDD remained locked for any other use, so now I rather wait till it's done. Can only be another 162 hours at this rate...
And why does it say that all my devices are damaged? There's no problem (that I can see) with the data on the HDD, or any of the USB sticks I use, and my other PCs (Win98, Win200, winXP) all tell me nothing about problems...

thx.

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no errors found
Jun 27, 2010 7:05AM PDT

Ok, so the scan ended within 48 h. Not too bad for a new Pc...
It found absolutely no errors, and still, every time I remove the device and stick it into the USB, it tells me again that there might be errors.
Why?

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bump.
Jul 3, 2010 8:55PM PDT

Over the past month I've run into this a bit more often than on my older machines. Chatting with others in the office it looks like 7 is picky about drives and if they are clean. It doesn't mean that all are defective but if you want to go deep, research the FAT file system and how easy it is for it to be damaged. And the damage may be minor without file loss 99 percent of the time. 7 is just picky about this.

Maybe someone will write a paper (long reply) but I'll stick to short replies.

Yes, I've seen chkdsk take a day.
Bob