CRC Error

Nish Nishant

I am getting a CRC error on one file on my laptop. Does this mean that my laptop's harddisk is gone? :-( http://www.codeproject.com/script/profile/upload/20248/error.JPG[^]

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Roger Wright

That's one possible cause. But if it isn't happenning to other files it's more likely that the file has been corrupted in some way. I'd do a quick backup of the drive, then wait and see if it gets worse before investing in a new drive. "If it's Snowbird season, why can't we shoot them?" - Overheard in a bar in Bullhead City

Alexander Kent

A longshot but: If youre running Win98-ish try: fdisk \mbr under dos. If youre running XP boot into the Recovery Console and after the Console has finished loading type in the following: fixmbr /device/harddisk0 harddisk0 would be your first disk, harddisk1 your second etc.. Yesterday i got an CRC error related to Compressed Files, like bad Winzip, Winace file.. etc... simply using a different compression utility helps (winrar, winace, winzip) ~Alexander Kent

Daniel Turini

It could be either your hard disk or your memory (I suppose you don't use ECC memory chips). Yes, even I am blogging now!

V 0

CRC: Cyclic Redundancy Check I should look it up again to now the details, but if I'm not mistaken it's a check done on compressed files like zips, rars, but also jpg, ... Mostly this error occurs when downloading from I-net. it could be that your HD is broken, but it is not likely (to make sure backup your files :-)) Most likely your file is corrupt. If you tried to unpack from winzip or something you can recover a part of the file I think: Open winzip and drag the file to explorer, when the error occurs do not close the error message, but open a new explorer window, go to the folder and you'll see the file. Copy this file to another destination. Now close the error message. If you're very lucky you've recovered a part of the file. (PS: I now this works with some errors, but I'm not sure about the CRC) good luck "If I don't see you in this world, I'll see you in the next one... and don't be late." ~ Jimi Hendrix

Arjan Einbu

Nishant S wrote: Does this mean that my laptop's harddisk is gone? No, it should still be there... ;P

Roger Wright

:laugh::laugh: "If it's Snowbird season, why can't we shoot them?" - Overheard in a bar in Bullhead City

Steve McLenithan

I had this problem once with a computer that no matter what file I downloaded from the net it was always corrupt like this... I think I ended up formatting :)

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