I just got a new PNY usb drive and it passed through an airport scanner yesterday.
For some reason, I wrote to it and then tried to read from it today, and it gave me a corrupted error!
chkdsk reports errors like:
Bad links in lost chain at cluster 1179 corrected. Lost chain cross-linked at cluster 1200. Orphan truncated. Lost chain cross-linked at cluster 1228. Orphan truncated. Lost chain cross-linked at cluster 1236. Orphan truncated. Lost chain cross-linked at cluster 1237. Orphan truncated. Lost chain cross-linked at cluster 1244. Orphan truncated. Lost chain cross-linked at cluster 1250. Orphan truncated. Lost chain cross-linked at cluster 1266. Orphan truncated. Lost chain cross-linked at cluster 1278. Orphan truncated.
etc.
What is this from? Could it possibly be from the airport scanner? Or is it likely a defective USB chip?
How can I check the chip to see if I should just return/throw it away or continue to use it?