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I use my USB flash (thumb) drive quite often to move data between several computers (Macs and PCs.) When I plug in this flash drive into Windows 7 it shows this message:

"Do you want to scan and fix ...?"

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If I click "Scan and fix" the message goes away for a little while only to come back again.

Is there a setting in Windows to make this message go away because it is very annoying to click through this window every time I plug in my drive?

PS. I run this same flash drive on a Mac computer and it never tells me that there's an issue with the drive.

PS2. I have other flash drives that keep showing this same message on Windows 7. They all cannot have the same issue, can they :)

ahmd1
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I found this solution on the net:

  1. goto Start
  2. type msconfig
  3. select Services Tab
  4. Scroll down and Uncheck Shell Hardware Detection
  5. Restart Windows
Andrea
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Thomas Little
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Question: How do you remove a USB flash drive from your system? Do you properly unmount it? In windows, this would be do you select the tray icon to gracefully allow you to remove your device.....or do you just yank it out?

If you are yanking it out without properly disconnecting (which flushes any important data out of the system and onto the USB drive, and sets the "clean" bit if you will)....programs are most likely responding to this action.

I'd suggest that for long life and no surprises that you first properly disconnect the system from accessing the USB drive before removal.

The message is detecting previous improper removal, and I'd scan and fix it!

mdpc
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Or you could try this solution to disable checking disk on a specified letter.

regedit
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager
autocheck autochk /k:C /k:D *
mortalis
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