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#167429 13-Mar-2015 09:59

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?

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#1257712 13-Mar-2015 10:09

Clear all the data off then let it do it. If it does it again ignore it. I just ignore it personally.

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#1257742 13-Mar-2015 11:02

or format the card instead of scanning.

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#1257805 13-Mar-2015 12:19

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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#1258078 13-Mar-2015 19:25

kiwifidget: 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?

I get these messages all the time when plugging in anything using a data storage device/memory card (my cameras, mobile phone, tablets, E-Readers, etc) and just ignore/close the message. I have found in 99.99% of the time it's just a default response from Windows when any type of storage media in a device gets plugged in to a USB port. I believe (in most cases) the error message is generated simply because Windows doesn't have direct access to the storage device in the camera, phone, tablet, etc and as a result flags it as a problem with the storage device, even when Windows explorer can read and write to the storage device/memory card.

The only time I've ever used the message options now is when the device using the data storage devicememory card has also reported a problem with it.

I once made a mistake of following this message's advice when I plugged my iPod Classic in to a USB port and clicked the Scan drive and Fix it option which it promptly did. iTunes then couldn't read the drive contents any more, and I had to reload all my music back on to the iPod (all 120 GB) after iTunes had fixed the mess Windows made of the iPod file system.

IOW if Windows explorer can read and write to the your camera's storage device/memory card, and your camera isn't reporting any problems with the storage device, you can safely ignore this message IMHO.

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#1258128 13-Mar-2015 21:18

Much of the time it will be the dirty bit. If you can rule that out you can start calling on other factors.

Fsutil dirtybit

No puns etc intended that's a command utility.