scanning for corrupted files on flashdrive

Kestrel13! · Feb 10, 2010

Friend of mine has many files that are corrupted on a flashdrive that came from abroad. It's a POS, but is there an easy way to scan for corrupted files and have a list of corrupted disaplyed, or does he have to go through each file one by one to see whether it's alright or not? (There are LOADS of files..sigh)

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DavidGP · Feb 10, 2010

Hi Em

Not come across any app that would scan and list corrupted files for you to delete over ok files, could try a file recovery app like Recuva to see if they can be recovered, if not its the painstaking job od checking them all.

Kestrel13! · Feb 10, 2010

Thanks Dave

plastidust · Feb 10, 2010

I'm not sure if this would work or not since I don't have any corrupt files on hand. And also unnecessary if Halo's suggestion works. But what about using "xcopy"? Hopefully "xcopy" won't be able to copy the corrupted files.

Create a "junk" folder on the harddrive, say "C:\junk", or on an external drive "E:\junk"?

then from the command console type:

xcopy x:\ c:\junk\ /E /Y /C /F >c:\junk\xlist.txt

Where the letter "x" is the letter assigned to the flash drive by the system and the "c:\junk\" is the name of the folder you created for this little excursion. The ">c:\junk\xlist.txt" is the file that will be created containing the output list of everything "xcopy" managed to copy.

While you're in the command console, type:

tree x: /A /F >c:\junk\treelist.txt

Now you have a list of everything(hopefully) that is supposed to be on the flash drive and two lists to compare.

Kestrel13! · Feb 11, 2010

Nice one Plastidust, will try that!

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