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Pixelated

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Torrent Won't Finish, Recheck File and Back to 99.8%, Repeats The Same

Hi,
First off I searched the forum for a solution but didn't see anything pertaining to my exact situation so I thought I'd ask here. I'm trying to download an .ISO and it finishes without any problems. When I try to open the file it's corrupt. So I force a recheck and the status goes back to 99.8%. No matter what it just repeats. This has been happening to a lot of my large torrents lately but forcing a recheck usually solves the problem. It's just becoming more and more frequent.

I have a relatively large amount of RAM so I force µTorrent to use a 512MB cache so as to not wear out my hard drive. I thought that might be a problem but setting it to auto and re-downloading the torrent doesn't seem to help. My HDD has been defragged so that's not it either. My disk is pretty full, could that be a problem? It's a WD Raptor 150GB and has around 7GB free. The file I'm downloading is only a little over a gigabyte. Thanks any help is appreciated.

Vista Ultimate SP1 32 Bit
Intel E8400
ASUS P5Q
3 GB RAM
ATI 4870

µTorrent 1.7.7 Build 8179

DreadWingKnight

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Re: Torrent Won't Finish, Recheck File and Back to 99.8%, Repeats The Same

Is it the same piece consistently?
Have you run a RAM test?
Have you checked your disk for errors (much different from a defragment)?

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Pixelated

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Re: Torrent Won't Finish, Recheck File and Back to 99.8%, Repeats The Same

Hmmm... I don't know if it is the same piece. Those are some good ideas though. I'll try Memtest and run chkdsk and get back to you. Thanks for the suggestions.♦

Firon

Administrator

Re: Torrent Won't Finish, Recheck File and Back to 99.8%, Repeats The Same

Is there a thumbs.db? Is it a music file?
The former can cause problems with Windows, the latter can be retagged automatically by lovely applications such as iTunes and WMP.

Pixelated

Member

Re: Torrent Won't Finish, Recheck File and Back to 99.8%, Repeats The Same

No it's one single 1.07 GB .ISO.

Firon

Administrator

Re: Torrent Won't Finish, Recheck File and Back to 99.8%, Repeats The Same

Well, definitely check to see if it's random pieces being redownloaded each time. That's a classic sign of RAM problems.

thelittlefire

Member

Re: Torrent Won't Finish, Recheck File and Back to 99.8%, Repeats The Same

... verify it's also not http://utorrent.com/faq.php#Incompatible_software

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Pixelated

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Re: Torrent Won't Finish, Recheck File and Back to 99.8%, Repeats The Same

Thanks for all the suggestions. It's seems it was a bad sector on my HDD. After scanning it with chkdsk it found a bad sector and repaired it. I downloaded the file again, rechecked it and it's at 100% and the file opens and installs fine now. Thanks for the help.

ger14

Member

Re: Torrent Won't Finish, Recheck File and Back to 99.8%, Repeats The Same

its not a ram issue, i have the same problem and it started after i updated to the new utorrent. I need to force recheck and then download, then force recheck and download again until i hit 100% after a force recheck. Ive tried rolling back to an older version and it wont change the issue. Oh and btw, this happens with every torrent i download (even the popular ones with 10's of thousands of seeders)

i also today downloaded a torrent that is 4.36gb
in utorrent it says "file size 4.36 gb" "completed 4.36gb" "percent 88.3%"  now how does that make any sense. This is obviously a bug

amd x2 4400 OC >2.53ghz
2gb ddr ram
windows xp pro sp3
ati 1600xt pcie

Firon

Administrator

Re: Torrent Won't Finish, Recheck File and Back to 99.8%, Repeats The Same

Underclock your PC.

brutusii

Member

Re: Torrent Won't Finish, Recheck File and Back to 99.8%, Repeats The Same

I have the same problem. And not just with one file. I still have to force recheck on many files, while others finish without problems. This started after updating to 1.8.1

AMD X2 4000+
2 GB Ram
XP SP3

ger14

Member

Re: Torrent Won't Finish, Recheck File and Back to 99.8%, Repeats The Same

my computers been overclocked for years, even when utorrent was working at its best. I used Azureus and it works fine, but if i could get utorrent to work, i prefer it over other programs.

Firon

Administrator

Re: Torrent Won't Finish, Recheck File and Back to 99.8%, Repeats The Same

Underclock your PC and see if the problem goes away.