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Miscellaneous HD problems
Tiffanys:
Another file came up with CRC, and after checking the files that had errors, all of them stopped before finished checking and got a CRC error.
Is this bad? x.x
Arveene:
This sounds very bad. Is your hard drive making any clicking noises?
I would back up any important files until you figure out why you're getting so many CRC errors. Check a few other files (maybe some older files to rule out corrupted recent downloads) and see what happens.
crossed:
--- Quote from: Tiffanys on March 24, 2010, 10:30:34 PM ---Another file came up with CRC, and after checking the files that had errors, all of them stopped before finished checking and got a CRC error.
Is this bad? x.x
--- End quote ---
I've had that happen once too. I rebooted my computer and ran checkdisk and defrag. It might help, but this is definitely a red flag that you should be keeping an eye on your filesystem now. Back up any important stuff ASAP! If this behavior keeps up, you should start looking into getting a replacement drive before anything else goes south.
You might also want to check your Anti-virus just in case.
namaiki:
Don't defrag. If the drive is going to fail, or the file system is corrupted, you will make it worse.
Tiffanys:
Well, I'm paranoid... I don't take risks. :P I've already purchased another TB HDD today and I'm about to clone my C drive to it (which is unfortunately the one affected). Once that's done, I'll send it in for an RMA.
Edit: HDD is cloned, torrents all successfully checked and redownloaded the parts that were lost in bad sectors of my other HDD. I don't see what I lost to bad sectors, but it seems there were somewhere in the ballpark of 40-60 GB worth of bad sectors, after seeing the resulting size. Seems like I still have everything important though, so that's good. I'll be doing an RMA now and it looks like I'm going to have an extra TB of space once this is all over.
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