Hi. When I plug my Samsung WB800F camera into my computer (Win8.1) a pop-up appears saying "There's a problem with this drive. Scan the drive now and fix it." I have been ignoring the message for a few days but it seems like its not going to go away. Operationally, the camera seems to be working fine. Should I scan the drive?
Format the card in the Camera if you don't want to lose new photos you take.
Camera file systems are not very robust at dealing with corruption. Also don't do the thing where you pick and choose photos to delete on camera. That leads to file system fragmentation which lowers the chance of recovery if the FATS do get corrupted. Work flow should be format card in camera, take all the photos you want, copy off camera and then format card to initialize it with a fresh empty file system.
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