- Mar 27, 2014
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As always, I suck at finding relevant information that is already posted in the forum, so I am asking for help to direct me to the proper posts that I'm sure are here somewhere but I somehow managed to miss them. I really tried...
Problem:
I have a 2 TB Western Digital (WD) HDD My book (WDBFJK0020HBK-NESN) connected to my laptop for backups. Every time my laptop wakes up (Dell 6510, Windows 7 HP) and detects the WD HDD, I get a pop-up window that asks me "Do you want to scan and fix My Book?". Windows believes that there are some corrupted files in the WD external HDD. I have other external drives but none of them have this issue. The problem is unaffected by the other drives being present or not. I tried and that doesn't matter.
The WD drive behaves normally: It can be found in the task manager and in the Windows explorer just fine. I have used it for backups with Macrium and Windows 7 native utility w/o errors. The files I retrieved from it for testing purposes are fine. I can navigate, everything looks ok.
BUT I get that pop-up every time! I think this happened since day one or very shortly after I started using the My Book.
The driver for the disk is up to date. My fear is that one day I will click "Yes, scan and fix" by mistake and I will erase everything I have in the HDD. I never installed the Western Digital "SmartWare" or -God forbid- the Acronis lite SW shipped w/the drive. I just plugged it in, watch Windows 7 find the driver and used it basically as a giant USB stick...
Because I don't use the WD software, their site is useless to help w/this; but I read strong recommendations here against mucking up the communication with the external disks w/those unnecessary layers of SW control.
Q1- How can I tell if my drive really has problems w/o installing the WD software?
Q2- Could it be that Windows 7 is spooked by the Macrium image files which are in Macrium's propitiatory format which may make Windows 7 think they are unreadable?
Q3- Would installing WD's SmartWare software (which has diagnostics in it) mess up the backup image files in the drive?
Q4- Am I doing the right thing by saying to Windows "Continue without scanning" when it asks me to let it repair My Book? It doesn't seem broken so I don't understand what's going on...
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!!
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