Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check) when accessing WD1200 - why?

[RavinDJ]

Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check) = error I get when trying to access my WD1200 in CMD prompt.

When I right-click MY COMPUTER and go to MANAGE, it shows as the drive is 120gb total and 120gb free space. WTF?!?!?!? I know I have at least 60GB filled up in there. What's going on?

Last thing that worked was when I deleted an 8GB image of one of my DVD's. After that, it got all screwy! Any ideas? Do I need to reformat?

Thanks,

Lukas

 

[RavinDJ]

Anyone???

Thanks!

Lukas

 

[GeForceX]

Do a check disk and repair it. You may have corrupt data on it that needs to be fixed. Go to your C: drive, properties, tools tab -- click on 'error checking' - check now.

-J.

 

[Ice Czar]

cable is my first thought

see > Corruption 101

and test your RAM followed by power

cause and effect being two seperate things
CRC errors arent good, what is causing them is important to track down
Id agree your likely to have corruption and need to repair it, but finding the root cause is equally if not more important

the data is still there for recovery or repair
but Id hunt down the cause first

 

[GeForceX]

Well, yeah that one too-- check the cause of it. But why would it happen after deleting an 8 GB image? Could deleting large files at once be damaging? Just throwing out some ideas.

:-D

-J.

 

[Ice Czar]

actually you didnt delete a large file
you simply changed the pointer to it, its still there, till its overwritten

the mis-reported space is a sign of the effect
but the CRC errors are a sign of the cause

 

[GeForceX]

Yeah. Maybe the electrons got stubborn and f**k'ed it up? I wonder if electrons had brains.

-J.

 

[RavinDJ]

Do a check disk and repair it. You may have corrupt data on it that needs to be fixed. Go to your C: drive, properties, tools tab -- click on 'error checking' - check now.

-J.

Hmmmm.... when I click on MY COMPUTER, it's VERY VERY SLOW to show up all the items. I have C: and G: as the hard-drives. Then, when I right-click C:, I can go to PROPERTIES > TOOLS > ERROR CHECKING

But, when I right click on the G: drive.... nothing happens! WTF?!?!?!?!? Maybe a virii???

It just shows the hour-glass and the middle of the 3 buttons (the maximize button in WinXP Pro) just flickers (it's as if it's pressed down for a second and then pops up). And, that's it!!! No right-click menu shows up. WTF???

All good posts... thanks! But, additional help would be very helpful and will be repaid with gratitude and a hundred smileys such as this one =>

 

[zandor]

CRC error? If it's not the cable, it usually means the drive is going bye-bye.
Check your event viewer in the control panel & see if there are a bunch of timeouts in there & try switching cables. Back up your stuff.
I just had a WD1200JB do this a month ago. It's dead now. Can't even get it to come up in the bios. (& yes I switched cables)

 

[Xrave]

I've had this happen a couple times.

My usual fix is formatting the drive, but that usually only solves the problem for a couple week because by this time the hard drive is about to give out all together.

Hope it's still under warranty

 

[RavinDJ]

Thanks for all the input guys!!! I'm lucky that I didn't have too much good info on it. Still, it sucks major @ss

I went on www.westerndigital.com and had a surprisingly easy time setting up an RMA. They're going to ship the drive pending approval of my credit card. I did the advanced RMA return (they ship to you the HDD prior to you shipping them the faulty one). It's easier and faster, they just hold your CC# on file. Blah....

Still, I'll play around with it. You guys still think it's the cable? It had both the MASTER and the SLAVE. It's the 120GB slave that gave out. The 40GB master is holding steady and pumping in very healthy.

Hmmm... any other ideas?

Blah... thanks, though

 

[GeForceX]

What do you mean both master and slave? How about trying to set it as Master and have only that in your case (single drive PC). Maybe it's a compatability issue (though highly unlikely). I doubt it's the cable (well, did you use the cable that's provided for the hard drive?). I've had a hard drive die once-- errors came across multiple times. If you see any corruption/errors popping up more frequently, there's the sign.

-J.