vesper8 Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 hello. in the past 3 days I've been getting a couple of CRCs.. I know this usually indicates bad sectors on my HD but it's a brand new HD so I'm being hopeful..could having too many torrents uploading/downloading at the same time be causing CRCs you think?the odd thing is.. it would seem the files themselves (the .rar archieves) are fine. It's when I unrar them that the CRC happens. and if I unrar them to one of my other hard drives.. the file is good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 I wouldn't trust that disk then. Even new hard drives can arrive faulty due to factory errors or some such... :/ It's a pain to do but if the disk repeatedly fails with different types of data, then I think an RMA is your only choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vesper8 Posted January 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 yea.. a real pain indeed considering i already sold the drive this 300gb replaced and i'd have to lose a lot of data for a rmai'm gonna run maxtor's powermax utility on it first to see if it detects bad sectorsbut otherwise.. does anyone think that just having too much data flowing in and out at the same time? I mean.. on top of having 8 torrents downloading/uploading i was also playing WoW off of that same drive so it made for a lot of incoming/outgoing flows.. can this cause CRCs too sometimes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 I doubt that could cause CRC errors. And SpinRite is a much better testing utility. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inf Posted January 12, 2006 Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 And before you do anything else, i would find some other HD (or any other alternative media) to back the data up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vesper8 Posted January 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 thanks for the adviceso.. do you mean that.. running powermax or spinrite could actually worsen the state of my hard drive?because as it is.. it does function normally 95% of the time.. it hasn't made me crash or done any other weird behavior.. i wanna confirm the bad sectors with spinrite which i've got ready to run now.. but you're not the only one that gave me the impression that finding the booboo make actually worsen it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted January 13, 2006 Report Share Posted January 13, 2006 Not necessarily. SpinRite can do recovery on the same drive just fine and even find sectors which are already starting to fail. Just run the maximum level check or something. Be warned, it takes a LONG time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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