comp.os.os2.utilities:131   
   From: "Andy"    
      
   On Sun, 27 Mar 2011 03:38:52 UTC, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
    wrote:   
      
   > > It occurs if I forget to eject a USB drive before pulling it out, this    
   > > is most likely to occur if I have more than one drive connected and    
   > > remember to do the eject but eject the wrong drive by mistake. Of    
   > > course a trap can cause the same condition if the USB drive is connected.   
   > >   
   > Right.  Well.  Exactly what problem this causes affects whether you'll    
   > get any joy out of CHKVOL.  If it's simply the case that the volume    
   > isn't properly unmounted, and some cached metadata changes aren't    
   > written back to the medium, then CHKVOL might yield joy.  If the problem    
   > is that this causes parts of the medium to become unreadable/unwritable,    
   > then CHKVOL won't help because it doesn't address medium I/O errors.     
   > The fact that you can recover from such a situation with SCANDISK is    
   > indicative of the former being the case, not the latter.   
   >    
   > Do you want to give CHKVOL a go?   
   >    
   > It's not really part of a formal package like my other softwares, in    
   > part because I'm not really at the stage of packaging up the whole that    
   > it forms one part of into something releaseable.  So you'll get an    
   > archive file with just the bare binaries, static data files, and no    
   > documentation; and separate documentation on my own WWW server.   
   >    
   I'm game to give it a shot... it is usually easilly checked by merely    
   pulling a USB drive without ejecting it first.   
   abwillis1 at gmail dot (com)     
   sorry for the obfuscation but I've had this email for several years    
   without a huge amount of spam and prefer to keep it that way.   
   Andy   
      
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