External Hard Drive and Check Disk goorambatman 12/7/2008 10:51:00 AM Hi there, I have an external NTFS hard drive that is for storage use only. It is connected Via USB. I am Running Windows Vista Home Premium SP1. When I attempt to check my hard drive for errors with Check Disk I can't. It says Windows can't check the disk for errors while it's in use. I proceed to schedule a disk check but this doesn't work as you can't seem to schedual disk checks for external USB hard drives. Secondly it shouldn't be in use! It often fails to eject safely and says windows can't stop it! Two very frustrating problems. ---------------- This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane. https://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/list/en-us/default.aspx?mid=0f0597f5-001b-4068-b561-38e72319708f&dg=microsoft.public.windows.vista.performance_maintenance

Re: External Hard Drive and Check Disk RodWish <guest[ at ]unknown-email.com> 12/27/2008 8:37:54 PM I'm having exactly the same problem - with a slightly different entry point. My entry is I'm trying to do a backup to the external disk, and I get an error which says "Windows has detected file system corruption (on the external drive), you must check the disk for errors before it can be restored." But when I try to check the disk, I run into the same problem as goorambatman. Help?? -- RodWish