Save report from Windows checking removable disk?

Question

Is there any way to save a report of the errors that Windows found and fixed in a USB key? Windows presented me this dialog, btw that is not resizable:

Checking Disk Removeable Disk (F:) - Some problems were found and fixed. . _{Some problems were found and fixed.}

When I open the details there is a long list of files with issues:

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_{Some problems were found and fixed (details)}

But there is no option to save a copy of the details to a text file. I could click Close and hope a report is saved somewhere but I'd like to be sure since there could be no going back.

I tried various text scraping tools such as NirSoft's SysExporter but it didn't recognize the details pane of the dialog so it couldn't extract what I need. Tried several others but no luck.

Any advice how to proceed?

CLARIFICATION: This scenario occurred automatically when I inserted one specific USB key into my computer, Windows prompted me that the key contains errors and would I like it to scan the key. I did not initiate this. I did not request a scan of the key using any tool like chkdsk or perf mon.

stderr · Answer 1 · 2013-08-25T19:04:58.213

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Use the Windows Performance Monitor for this. (See image below).

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For open the monitor, open the run box (press + R), type perfmon and hit Enter.

For save reports, right click.

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edited Aug 25 '13 at 19:04

answered Aug 25 '13 at 18:58

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Please explain this answer in more detail as I don't see how it applies to my scenario. When I follow these steps I get a tiny text file that contains exactly this "Name Date\n". – JohnC Aug 26 '13 at 11:07

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 25 '13 at 18:58

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If you had started this from an admin "command prompt" you would have had a scroll bar. chkdsk /x /r f:

Try this: Left click next to just to the left of the "V" in volume. then

open notepad

answered Aug 25 '13 at 18:58

cybernard

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I updated my question to clarify that I did not start anything from the command prompt and did not run chkdsk. – JohnC Aug 26 '13 at 13:59

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 26 '13 at 04:59

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A report is saved somewhere, and the report is copy pastable too.

Go to the event viewer %windir%\system32\eventvwr.msc /s

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Select the application logs

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Bring up menu item Action, Find

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Type in chkdsk to find chkdsk entries

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When you find what your looking for double click on it, or Right click Properties And as you can see , the event viewer allows text selection, and copy paste.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/96938-check-disk-chkdsk-read-event-viewer-log.html

answered Aug 26 '13 at 04:59

Psycogeek

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Thanks for the suggestion to check in event viewer. All I did was insert a USB key, so it is not "chkdsk" but something else that I need to search for. Any suggestion what event is triggered by inserting a USB key and that causes a disk check? I did try a search for "chkdsk" but it didn't return any recent results. – JohnC Aug 26 '13 at 13:58
@JohnC There is one more thing at the link itself. – Psycogeek Aug 26 '13 at 15:03
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Two actually if you count "Event Viewer | Find 'wininit'" and PowerShell "get-winevent". Neither one turned up anything to correspond to the auto USB key scan from the weekend. – JohnC Aug 26 '13 at 20:51

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 26 '13 at 18:42

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Run this powershell script to output all checkdsk entries from Eventlog into a text file:

get-winevent -FilterHashTable @{logname="Application"; id="1001"}| ?{$_.providername –match "wininit"} | fl timecreated, message  > DRIVELETTER:\chkdsk.txt

answered Aug 26 '13 at 18:42

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