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  1. 2006/11/21
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    Hi... I searched for this topic and saw one thread from January of this year. I am hoping more info is available now.

    Does anyone have any idea of how I can fix a CRC error. I was using my second hard drive without issue and trying to fix a random shutdown error and did a chkdsk on the drive and now I have a CRC error and cannot access the drive. Any suggestions would be most appreciated. thank you.:confused:
     
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    suggestion:
    Yank the drive & slave it in another computer to backup all the data on it, go out & buy a new drive cause this one may not last too much longer. CRC errors are usually associated with data transmissions, but sometimes a file can get corrupted to the point where it cannot be read or deleted. (Cyclic Reduncy Check) What's the exact complete crc error message?
     
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    error #45 CRC error in data

    The advice you're giving me sounds like the best way. All of the suggested fixes on scanning and doing chkdsk is what caused the problem. the drive was usable without issue...did a chkdsk and voila... thank you.
     
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    By the way...how does putting the drive in another pc as a slave effect the redundancy error? thank you.
     
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    It won't, my mistake.
    What you could try is to go to the drive manufac site & download their diagnostic utils, usually a boot floppy, and run them on the disk in question.
    Other option is if both drives are sharing the same ide cable, try removing the good drive, set the 'bad drive' as master, boot & see what happens. In no joy, boot from the xp cd and run chkdsk.
     
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    Tony, thanks for all your help. have tried many avenues including bootitng...and no luck accessing the drive. I'm not going to worry about it...as of now I think I have the most important data so it is time to cut my losses and move on.

    Bought a new PC yesterday... besides the hd problem the system randomly shuts down. And again...tired of trying to fix...

    so I moved from my orig intent of buying Intel and bought AMD 64 x2 system.

    thanks again for your help. this forum has been the best for finding help. Appreciate all efforts...Happy Thanksgiving!:)
     
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    In my experience, random shutdowns are usually due to overheating, esp if bios has options to shutdown when too hot.
     
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    true...except my computer was never hot. I researched it...and had someone else look at it...same thing. not hot...but still shuts down. at any rate i'm able to use the computer...rebuilt this a.m. but am not and cannot use as primary. slow compared to this one and I can't be creating docs and sites and have it shutdown in the midst of all of that. anyway...Happy Thanksgiving.
     
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