How can I disable error checking on a USB flash drive?

[techs]

I use a Sandisk Cruzer 2gb. flash drive on a lot of machines with two of them being Windows Vista machines. Unless I do the "Safely remove hardware" seequence before I unplug it on a Windows XP machine, when I then plug it into a Windows Vista machine it says my disk needs to be checked, or I can just continue without scanning.
I have scanned many times and have never found an error.
Can I disable the error checking on the Vista machines? Or perhaps do something to the drive to disable the error checking?
Thanks.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: techs
I use a Sandisk Cruzer 2gb. flash drive on a lot of machines with two of them being Windows Vista machines. Unless I do the "Safely remove hardware" seequence before I unplug it on a Windows XP machine, when I then plug it into a Windows Vista machine it says my disk needs to be checked, or I can just continue without scanning.
I have scanned many times and have never found an error.
Can I disable the error checking on the Vista machines? Or perhaps do something to the drive to disable the error checking?
Thanks.

Turn off write caching on the XP box so safe removal is not needed, otherwise no matter what you do their is some chance of data corruption.

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: bsobel

Originally posted by: techs
I use a Sandisk Cruzer 2gb. flash drive on a lot of machines with two of them being Windows Vista machines. Unless I do the "Safely remove hardware" seequence before I unplug it on a Windows XP machine, when I then plug it into a Windows Vista machine it says my disk needs to be checked, or I can just continue without scanning.
I have scanned many times and have never found an error.
Can I disable the error checking on the Vista machines? Or perhaps do something to the drive to disable the error checking?
Thanks.

Turn off write caching on the XP box so safe removal is not needed, otherwise no matter what you do their is some chance of data corruption.

I hadn't thought of that. While I can do that on my machines I use the drive in a lot of other machines.
I seem to remember in past you could actually do something to the disk. Maybe I'm thinking of Win98 and Win95 where, iirc, you could disable scandisk in the os.

 

[bsobel]

I hadn't thought of that. While I can do that on my machines I use the drive in a lot of other machines. I seem to remember in past you could actually do something to the disk. Maybe I'm thinking of Win98 and Win95 where, iirc, you could disable scandisk in the os.

You could turn off boot mode checking in 95, however the reason the check comes up is the device wasn't cleanly shutdown so the risk of corruption remains. Basically you've been lucky so far, and you'll probably continue to be lucky, but it just takes one time to corrupt data on the drive. WIth write caching off once the drive noticeable stops writing its safe to remove and that dirty bit is clear so chkdsk on the other boxes wont trigger.