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

Is it the same piece consistently?

Have you run a RAM test?

Have you checked your disk for errors (much different from a defragment)?

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.♦

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.

No it's one single 1.07 GB .ISO.

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

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

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.

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

Underclock your PC.

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

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.

Underclock your PC and see if the problem goes away.