I suspect it does, because I've never got the warning. You may be learning about the vaguaries of flash memory the hard way. On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:23:34 -0500 (CDT), you wrote: >I just updated to the latest firmware beta today. As I mentioned before, I >had been having problems doing so because of a message saying there was an >error writing to file. Since I got no suggestions on this, I tried >formatting my card, saying a cheerful goodbye to the stuff i had on it. >This did the trick, and I was able to update successfully. I'm wondering, >under what circumstances will you get that warning saying that you may >have to run chkcsk? Does it happen when there is a known problem that the >system detects or does it just happen randomly or is there some other >cryteria by which it decides when you need a warning? I.E., when I get the >warning about running chkdsk before updating my firmware, does this mean a >problem has been detected? > >Bruce