My WD passport 160gb USB drive, while looking smart is being a pain to use.
Formatted as FAT32. I was mass editing a chunk of MP3 tags and got a taskbar balloon saying delayed write fail. But all seemed well and the files worked fine afterwards. I looked into that message and some fixes seemed to be to turn off write caching on the drives involved. So I did.
But it didn't stop the message, it also doesn't happen on every file. I've performed a scandisk a couple of times with no change and now if I try to copy a new file to the drive it says it can't find the sector. But sometimes it will copy but not delete existing files. All kind of annoying things then.
I've now found that my videos folder has been replaced by a 32kb file of the same name and all files inside have been moved to found.000. Bl***y gigs of .chk files
I've already had to return one of these drives that died straight away when I tried to reformat to NTFS the day I got it.
1. can you automatically restore *.chk files?
2. disk borked? seems to work ok on my Mac at work so I'm going to reformat to EXT3 to see what happens.
Mac diskchecker says:
Verify and Repair disk “STORAGE”
** /dev/disk1s1
** Phase 1 - Read FAT
** Phase 2 - Check Cluster Chains
** Phase 3 - Checking Directories
** Phase 4 - Checking for Lost Files
Next free cluster in FSInfo block (38783) not free
fix? yes
56995 files, 3941824 free (385326 clusters), 1050144 bad (688177 clusters)
1 non HFS volume checked
No repairs were necessary
Formatted as FAT32. I was mass editing a chunk of MP3 tags and got a taskbar balloon saying delayed write fail. But all seemed well and the files worked fine afterwards. I looked into that message and some fixes seemed to be to turn off write caching on the drives involved. So I did.
But it didn't stop the message, it also doesn't happen on every file. I've performed a scandisk a couple of times with no change and now if I try to copy a new file to the drive it says it can't find the sector. But sometimes it will copy but not delete existing files. All kind of annoying things then.
I've now found that my videos folder has been replaced by a 32kb file of the same name and all files inside have been moved to found.000. Bl***y gigs of .chk files
I've already had to return one of these drives that died straight away when I tried to reformat to NTFS the day I got it.
1. can you automatically restore *.chk files?
2. disk borked? seems to work ok on my Mac at work so I'm going to reformat to EXT3 to see what happens.
Mac diskchecker says:
Verify and Repair disk “STORAGE”
** /dev/disk1s1
** Phase 1 - Read FAT
** Phase 2 - Check Cluster Chains
** Phase 3 - Checking Directories
** Phase 4 - Checking for Lost Files
Next free cluster in FSInfo block (38783) not free
fix? yes
56995 files, 3941824 free (385326 clusters), 1050144 bad (688177 clusters)
1 non HFS volume checked
No repairs were necessary
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