Odd CRC errors on hard drives, physical problem?

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Gaikokujin Kyofusho

Hi, I have an external hard drive and lately when i try to copy files to
it certain files give me a "Cyclic Redundancy Error". I would have
thought that it was totally the files but I am able to copy these files
to another (though internal) hard drive just fine. I haven't tried
burning them to CD but it would seem to me that if it was just the files
that I would be getting the error no matter where i tried to copy them.

If any one has any ideas (i.e. "Your hard drive is dying" or "Its just
the files" etc) I would really appreciate the input!

Cheers

-Gaiko
 
Gaikokujin Kyofusho said:
Hi, I have an external hard drive and lately when i try to copy files to
it certain files give me a "Cyclic Redundancy Error". I would have
thought that it was totally the files but I am able to copy these files
to another (though internal) hard drive just fine. I haven't tried
burning them to CD but it would seem to me that if it was just the files
that I would be getting the error no matter where i tried to copy them.

If any one has any ideas (i.e. "Your hard drive is dying" or "Its just
the files" etc) I would really appreciate the input!

Cheers

-Gaiko
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go the the website of the mfg and get a hradrive diagnostic

it could be a bad drive!
 
Hi, I have an external hard drive and lately when i try to copy files to
it certain files give me a "Cyclic Redundancy Error". I would have
thought that it was totally the files but I am able to copy these files
to another (though internal) hard drive just fine. I haven't tried
burning them to CD but it would seem to me that if it was just the files
that I would be getting the error no matter where i tried to copy them.

If any one has any ideas (i.e. "Your hard drive is dying" or "Its just
the files" etc) I would really appreciate the input!

Cheers

-Gaiko
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Check your memory with http://www.memtest86.com for several hours.

If the external drive is connected by USB2, see if you can find a pattern
to this corruption. How is this error made evident to you, exactly?

You might try connecting the enclosure to a USB1.1 port if it's currently
using USB2, some enclosure chips seem a bit buggy under (unknow specific)
situations. I vaguely recall that some ALI chips seemed to cause this
sort of problem, possibly from overheating. Opening your enclosure and
examining the circuit board should reveal which chipset the board is based
around, it would be one of (or the only) larger chip on the board.
 
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