"Do you want to scan and fix" message

When I plug in my external ssd, that little black popup that confirms an external device is connected appears on the bottom right of my desktop, but usually disappears before I can click on it, but not today.



My first thought is will that affect/erase any data on it.

My second thought regards a problem I've been experiencing to a while, which coincided with my first use of the ssd.

It's probably just paranoia that the events are related, that the ssd somehow corrupted my OS, due to the fact that I often can't cut n' paste with complete success anymore, and that I first experienced it when using the ssd. The larger the job, the more difficult it is to finish the task successfully. There may be a partial move of the material, or none at all, also occurring with dragn'drop. Sometimes, during an attempt of cut n'paste, the screen will go temporarily go complete black, and and then return to the desktop with the file explorer windows closed. I'm

I'm wondering if anyone has seen this phenomena befoee?

Ultimately, I don't know if the offer to scan is related to that problem, which would be great, but at what cost when it comes to data.

When windows starts its writes a dirty bit to the hd when it shuts down it clears it if its not shut down properly the dirty bit isnt cleared and it trigger the message your seeing https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...s/fsutil-dirty

Do the drive scan. It has detected that the file system may need to be repaired.

Agreed, do the repair. I've seen several such messages and most times there's no problems found. The "safely remove" procedure should be used, either the icon in the Notification Area or right-click of the drive in File Explorer. Simply removing a drive doesn't assure Windows has finished writing to it. And sometimes plugging into a different port will trigger it. Bringing a drive from a different computer can also do it.

Thanks guys. No more messages.