External Hard Drive and Check Disk

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Hi there, I have an external NTFS hard drive that is for storage use only.
It is connected Via USB. I am Running Windows Vista Home Premium SP1.

When I attempt to check my hard drive for errors with Check Disk I can't.
It says Windows can't check the disk for errors while it's in use. I proceed
to schedule a disk check but this doesn't work as you can't seem to schedual
disk checks for external USB hard drives.

Secondly it shouldn't be in use! It often fails to eject safely and says
windows can't stop it!

Two very frustrating problems.

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I have this same problem as RodWish,
Drive still appears to work and function Ok fro accessing files etc but
backup causes error message as described
 
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