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When writing data to a USB flash drive, does Windows guarantee its integrity?
Let's say I throw a folder on a USB flash drive through Windows Explorer.
A 16 GB flash drive, when it scanned, there was something like 90 - 95% of live sectors, and inanimate ones at the end.
1. Does Windows send dead sectors to the end as well as with SSD?
2. Does Windows guarantee the integrity of recorded files? Let's say this is a folder with a bunch of files of different sizes, totaling 1 GB. Or if I let's say I put 15 GB of files on the USB flash drive, will Windows report that the operation failed, since the last files in theory could not be placed on the USB flash drive due to bad sectors?
Thanks in advance !
Best regards,
Robert
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If it is impossible to write to some sector, Windows will give an error. The same will happen if there is simply not enough space on the drive.
The integrity (correspondence to the original) of the data that was formally written (that is, the disk driver did not give any errors to the system) is not checked. There is a way to force the check, for example when working on the command line when executing xcopy /V
. However, if caching is enabled for the given drive, this check does nothing, as it compares the source files and their contents in the in-memory cache.
Does Windows guarantee the integrity of written files?
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