data error - crc check - corrupted files

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i have a laptop pc and it is fairly old. i recently ran into this hard
drive problem: apparently a part of my D drive (i have two partitions)
has been corrupted one way or another, as when I tried to move some
files from D to elsewhere windows would get stuck for a while before
displaying an error message saying something like 'cannot copy file,
data error, crc check..'. I can delete the corrupted files without any
problems, but i wonder if it is a deeper problem with my hard disk. i
ran check disk on it and windows didn't find bad sectors. Does anyone
know what's going on? thanks.
 
Spark said:
i have a laptop pc and it is fairly old. i recently ran into this hard
drive problem: apparently a part of my D drive (i have two partitions)
has been corrupted one way or another, as when I tried to move some
files from D to elsewhere windows would get stuck for a while before
displaying an error message saying something like 'cannot copy file,
data error, crc check..'. I can delete the corrupted files without any
problems, but i wonder if it is a deeper problem with my hard disk. i
ran check disk on it and windows didn't find bad sectors. Does anyone
know what's going on? thanks.
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Run the appropriate diagnostic software from your drive's manufacturer.
You should be able to remap the bad sectors, but I wouldn't really
trust the drive anymore. (as more are likely to come)


-WD
 
Will Dormann said:
Run the appropriate diagnostic software from your drive's manufacturer.
You should be able to remap the bad sectors,
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What bad sectors?

" i ran check disk on it and windows didn't find bad sectors"
but I wouldn't really trust the drive anymore.
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(as more are likely to come)
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Or it is just a Power Supply problem.
 
Folkert said:
What bad sectors?

" i ran check disk on it and windows didn't find bad sectors"
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Running "check disk" does not necessarily imply that a full surface scan
was performed. e.g., I can run chkdsk.exe on my Win2k system and at
the end it says "0 KB in bad sectors." It's just reporting how many
sectors are currently marked as bad.

The symptoms sound like bad sectors, but since the OP wasn't totally
clear as to what was done, it was just an educated guess.


-WD
 
Svend Olaf Mikkelsen said:
Yes, but a disk problem too, since the disk should be able to protect itself?
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IBM's didn't and they even mentioned that in the manual.
 
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