New Voyager Air owner has a question about CHKDSK prompt

[Ton]

After having had and returned 2 Seagates Wireless Plus, today I exchanged the last one for a Corsair Voyager Air. I regret that I didn't do that earlier or better that I didn't buy the Corsair right away. The Seagate kept freezing all the time and wasn't usable at all. With the Corsair I didn't have a problem until now (Of course I keep my fingers crossed :biggrin:)

 

But I have a question: When I connect the drive to my pc, I see a prompt from Windows that there are errors on the drive. I already read under the FAQ's here that that is normal and doesn't mean anything. But should I still run Error Checking and "repair" the drive ? Or should I just ignore it and do nothing at all ?

 

Oh... and one more question that arose while using the drive: I set a password, but now every time I make a wifi connection from my iPhone I have to enter the password again. I didn't have that with the Seagate. Somehow the pw was remembered on my iPhone. Isn't that possible for the Voyager app ?

 

Thanks in advance.

[Yellowbeard]

Run the repair, it's usually very quick.

[Ton]

Thanks Yellowbeard. That was very quick. Just before I edited my post with an additional question (couldn't edit the title).

Maybe you have an answer for that too ?

 

Update:

I think I have solved it after doing a Google search, but nevertheless would like to know if this is the right way or if there is an easier way.

I chose "Other" on the iPhone and entered VoyagerAir and WPA2 and my password. Then it seems to remember the password.

Is that THE way to do it ?

[Ton]

Another update:

I thought it was solved, but unfortunately it is not, I still have to enter the pw after rebooting the drive and connecting to it from my iPhone.

Is this normal or should the pw be remembered ?

[Pooka]

I already read under the FAQ's here that that is normal and doesn't mean anything. But should I still run Error Checking and "repair" the drive ? Or should I just ignore it and do nothing at all ?

 

I'm not sure it really says that. As Yellowbeard suggested, run the fix routine. It is most likely the result of disconnecting the drive without ejecting it first, and it is not unusual to get that message with any portable drive if you do that. You won't be able to eject most disk drives by right clicking on it in File Manager like you can with USB Flash Drives (UFDs), you'll need to go into the system tray and find the icon that looks like a USB A connector and eject it from there. If you get into the habit of doing that, you're not likely to encounter that message (and certainly won't run the risk of disconnecting the drive while it is in the middle of writing a file ... I didn't do it, but someone did it with one of my portable drives ... don't ask :) )

[Ton]

Thanks Pooka. I always use "safely remove" in Windows.

But I haven't seen the chkdsk prompt anymore. It happened only the 1st time.

And meanwhile I exchanged the 500 GB drive that I bought for a 1 TB one and there I didn't see it at all.