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   From: "James J. Weinkam"    
      
   Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:   
   >   
   > Do you actually end up in this situation a lot? Because if this is a regular   
   occurrence for you it   
   > might be interesting to see (a) what the error is that SCANDISK fixes, and   
   (b) whether my volume   
   > checker can fix it. It might, after all, be an error that I haven't already   
   thought of, or caused;   
   > and I can add it to the repair list. I mentioned earlier in this thread that   
   I brought this up only   
   > for the sake of completeness, nothing more. But if there's a regular   
   problem, that actually occurs   
   > in practice nowadays — that someone is genuinely experiencing xyrself as   
   an on-going annoyance from   
   > month to month — then it's worth seeing whether CHKVOL will help.   
   >   
   I use FAT32 formatted SD cards in my camera, GPS, and audio recorder. Using a   
   USB card reader, I    
   transfer the files to my eCS2.0 system, ensure the transferred files are   
   complete and correct, then    
   erase them from the card, run chkdsk on it, and then eject it. Other than   
   erasing the files just    
   before running chkdsk and ejecting the card, I never modify the card on the   
   computer, so traps and    
   power failures, which do happen occasionally, do not cause trouble. Every few   
   months, however chkdsk    
   finds a problem and recommends running scandisk to fix it. Just out of   
   curiosity, I have tried    
   ejecting and reinserting the card when this has happened on several occasions.   
   Sometimes after    
   reinsertion I can read and write even though chkdsk thinks something is wrong;   
   on other occasions,    
   eCS simply says the drive is unusable. On every occasion but one running   
   chkdsk under windows has    
   fixed the problem (on my version of windows, it's called chkdsk, not   
   scandisk). On one occasion, the    
   windows chkdsk claimed to have fixed the problem, but eCS refused to allow the   
   card to be used; in    
   the end, I had to use DFSee to zero the entire card and reformat it. After   
   formatting a card FAT32    
   using DFSee, I find it necessary to eject and reinsert the card then run   
   chkdsk before eCS will    
   allow it to be used; I have never needed to run the windows version for that.   
      
      
      
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