Cyclic Redundancy

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Twice my 120 gb hard drive, which is less than a year
old, has had some sort of major disaster. During a large
file transfer, a message saying something about cyclic
redundancy error popped up. Immediately thereafter
things seem ok, but when I restart, windows says the
drive is unformatted, and I end up haveing to reformat
and losing everything. Ideas?
 
Tom said:
Twice my 120 gb hard drive, which is less than a year
old, has had some sort of major disaster. During a large
file transfer, a message saying something about cyclic
redundancy error popped up. Immediately thereafter
things seem ok, but when I restart, windows says the
drive is unformatted, and I end up haveing to reformat
and losing everything. Ideas?
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Yep - have the hard drive replaced (if under warranty) or buy a new one -
CRC means it's having issues reading the drive and is indicative of
impending hardware failure. Visit the manufacturer's website and download
their diagnostics. Then salvage as much data as you can.
 
Twice my 120 gb hard drive, which is less than a year
old, has had some sort of major disaster. During a large
file transfer, a message saying something about cyclic
redundancy error popped up. Immediately thereafter
things seem ok, but when I restart, windows says the
drive is unformatted, and I end up haveing to reformat
and losing everything. Ideas?
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CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) is a process where file consistency
check is done during file copies. In this case the file failed to copy
for some reason. Maybe the HD has a fault (a full format may find bad
sectors on the HD).

Peter Hutchison
Windows FAQ
http://www.pcguru.plus.com/
 
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