Drives showing that they require to be repaired

kufr said:

Now the issue is when I re-scan the drive I again get the same error that Windows need to repair the drive.



Can someone please help me get rid of this I am really worried about this since 4 of my drives are doing this. All of them are external drives and all have the same issue.

It is not saying that it needs to repair the drive.


All the best,
Denis

Hi, first check those disks, just in case.
Once again, try
Hard Disk Sentinel (excellent, informative) - full functional trial, portable version available.
Basic SMART check: Crystal Diskinfo (free).

How do you remove the disks?
When you don't need to “Safely Remove” a USB drive on Windows 10

Have they been used on a different PC?

It will keep saying that if the dirty bit is set from CMD prompt type

fsutil dirty query c:
Change c for drive letter

Try3 said:

It is not saying that it needs to repair the drive.


All the best,
Denis

But if it does not need to Repair the drive it why does it Scan & Repair Drive. If it was ok then it should be like this

dalchina said:

Hi, first check those disks, just in case.
Once again, try
Hard Disk Sentinel (excellent, informative) - full functional trial, portable version available.
Basic SMART check: Crystal Diskinfo (free).

How do you remove the disks?
When you don't need to “Safely Remove” a USB drive on Windows 10

Have they been used on a different PC?

Hard Disk Sentinel shows them to be perfect 100% health. I also tried using CrystalDiskInfo (64bit) no error with any of the drives even there.

Commected them to my Laptop and it's the same.

Samuria said:

It will keep saying that if the dirty bit is set from CMD prompt type

fsutil dirty query c:
Change c for drive letter

Let me check that and get back to you. Right now hooking the drives to my other pc and trying to same.
I just checked and it says drives are not dirty

FYI everyone all these drive have been formatted as ExFat and not NTFS

Thanks, as above, question remains about how you remove/eject the disks. I.e. what might be triggering this.

Given they are ex-FAT -consider:

What is the problem of ExFAT?
Here's the problem with ExFat. It's not Journaled. While reading/writing to a drive, some information is cached – especially some quick small elements. If they're not accounted for, and you eject the drive incorrectly, you'll possibly lose data or corrupt the drive

You may find this of interest:
exFAT partition got corrupted, but was easily fixed. How did this happen? | MacRumors Forums

- pointing to the relative fragility of ex-FAT, assuming no improvement since this was written. E.g.


I don't think you've commented on how you eject/remove them.

Thank you for your reply.

You never ever remove your external drives??

You can try
chkdsk X: /scan
where X is the drive letter of interest.

This should not require the volume to be dismounted, and only scans.

Also suggest you try reformatting one drive as a test case.

But note that chkdsk may not work with exFAT.
Does Chkdsk /R work for exfat volumes? - Windows Forum