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Originally Posted by eschwartz
This is a classic problem with Windows, any version. It will occasionally get it into its head that your drive *might* have problems, and mark it with the hidden dirty bit. The only way to fix it is to reformat your drive -- I've never had any luck clearing it by scanning.
You can also clear the dirty bit by editing the raw drive with a hex editor. Needless to say, this is involved and risky. Here be dragons.
I have been ignoring this problem on all of my removable drives/ereaders/etc, for years now -- because I can't be bothered to copy all my files and reformat my drives just for a Windows-specific idiocy. |
I've always let Windows check the drive and it's always reset the bit that says the drive needs to be scanned. So the solution is to allow Windows to scan the drive and it will fix things if need be and reset that bit.