voodoochile Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Hi all, I'm hoping for some help with this problem. I'm not sure if this is even a uTorrent problem or something else, but that's why I'm here.I've been using uTorrent for a couple of years, but in the last several months or year maybe, I have a common problem where torrents will complete, and then I will try to run them or unpack them or whatever, and they will be corrupt. So I do a hash recheck and lo and behold, it drops back to 99.9%. This is happening quite often, on public torrents, private torrents, and for all different things, my most recent being the beta test of a game.I can just start it again after rechecking, it finishes off properly the second time in just a few minutes, but it's become a nuisance because I can't rely on torrents downloading properly any more. If I download something and then put it on my removeable disk and take it somewhere and then I find that it doesn't work... the fact that it only needs 0.1% isn't any consolation to me because I have to bring it all the way back home and load it up in utorrent again to finish that 0.1%.Anyone know of this problem or why it may happen? I have a well maintained pc, WinXP, recently reformatted and has a fresh install of XP on it. I download mostly to an external USB hard drive. I would test downloading to my main disk but it's full.I have a good 20mbit cable connection and I regularly defrag. Thanks in advance!p.s. My uTorrent uses the Speed Guide settings it selects for me, however I was getting regular disk overload so I have tweaked my disk cache options a bit, I wonder if that is the most likely culprit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Could be a bad drive/hardware, or bad software, take your pick. Some programs will alter say music for example. See any pattern in what pieces are lost? Or what file types are affected? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voodoochile Posted September 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Thanks for the reply. I haven't actually noticed a pattern to be honest but, it seems that most of the things I download are compressed somehow, rars, or zips, or a single zip. I wonder if that might have something to do with it.As for my hard drive, it's a brand new disk, western digital, however it's in an external enclosure and attached to my PC using USB2. I wonder if perhaps that isn't a good idea to download directly on to that?In the meantime I've just been trying to remember to do a Force Re-Check on everything that gets downloaded. That works quite well, I just have to remember to do it. And it can take some time too. One of the beta's of a game I had one time was around 20gigabytes so that took quite a while to recheck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTHK Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 What make/modem drive? What brand enclosure? And give a few torrents a go on the internal drive, see what happens. Also give chkdsk a go on the external. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Handa Posted October 3, 2009 Report Share Posted October 3, 2009 I have this problem too, tried several of my disks but it keep happening. Not on every torrent but when it happens it stops all download/upload of every torrent and I wake up with nothing seeded.. And some are just really annoying, have to keep trying to stop and start it til it finishes those last bytes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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