There is a problem with this drive. Scan says it's not

You're looking at 2 different things.

The second- the SMART parameters essentially the state of the physical disk.

The first relates to the integrity of the file system on that disk.

The first probably relates to the state of the so-called 'dirty' bit.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...s/fsutil-dirty

- from that you can check its state.

When I run the scan it says there is no problem!

- which scan? some version of chkdsk? or something else?

Thank you for your reply.


If you care to research this issue you will find lots written about it.

If you use tenforums as a resource and search it you will find e.g.
Preventing chkdsk at boot

How to stop chkds permanently?
- from #3
Drive Error Checking in Windows 10

etc

I note the drive is formatted exFAT. False negatives in Win 10 are common with any drive other than NTFS, particularly exFAT and FAT32 (even though there is never anything wrong).

Backup the contents, reformat the drive NTFS, return the data and you won't see that annoying message again.

idgat said:

I note the drive is formatted exFAT.

Additional note : This is probably how it came out of the box. I always practise that every new USB device - SSD, HDD or flash - is not just re-formatted but has all partitions deleted and new NTFS partition(s) created (unless FAT32 is required by the device it's to be used on ... then I just live with Win 10 foibles about not playing nicely)