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odd Error i get when moving data

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dementer

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when i am trying to get some data off a laptop HD i have hooked up to my machine once any a while i get this thrown at me....
why?

and what can i do to get the data off the drive?


*insert file name* :Data error (cyclic redundancy check)



Any ideas at all?

Thanks
demener
 
There are a couple of ways you can retrieve pertinent data. If you can read the files at all, you may be able to retrieve the files or directories one at a time. Also running a scandisk surface check can relocate data on bad sectors to good sectors on the drive. Then you could run your partition copy program, if that is what you use. If you have bad sectors the drive may not be lost completely. A quick format and running a forced overwrite, like a DOD wipe, can refresh a drive that have been infected with a virus executable which can cause bad sectors. You should concentrate on retrieving as much usefull data as possible first, though.
Edit: I have also heard that freezing a drive can actually be used to retrieve data from a drive that is about to fail.
 
What copying program would you recomend?
i am just using explorer going through files basicly grabbing files one at a time till i find the bad file, then i am un-able to get it
rather time consuming going one, little, file, at, a, time, till, i, find, the, bad, file...
 
Sounds like virus infected files. Have you tried running a virus scan on the drive? If you were able to get the drive virus free and all the files on good sectors on the drive, you could use the drive manufacturer's copy program, such as Maxblast from Maxtor, driveguard from Western Digital, Seagate drive utilities, all which work in DOS mode. I think they also copy partitions in Windows now. I would try to clean it up with anti-virus first and if worse comes to worse, copy files or directories individually. Mostly you only need documents and settings. No sense pulling windows files. Hope you don't lose too much porn.LOL
 
gigaxtreme1 said:
Sounds like virus infected files. Have you tried running a virus scan on the drive? If you were able to get the drive virus free and all the files on good sectors on the drive, you could use the drive manufacturer's copy program, such as Maxblast from Maxtor, driveguard from Western Digital, Seagate drive utilities, all which work in DOS mode. I think they also copy partitions in Windows now. I would try to clean it up with anti-virus first and if worse comes to worse, copy files or directories individually. Mostly you only need documents and settings. No sense pulling windows files. Hope you don't lose too much porn.LOL
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i know it has had infections in the past. but it is now clean (went though rehab :) )
it was clean when i got it from my buddy, and it had worked up untill one day when he came home and it didn't load Windows.. (his brother may or may not have had something to do with it)

i am going through trying to get his doc's and his saved stuff for a few things (finding some rather umm intresting stuff... russian dateing stuff...)

would mirring the drive over to another HD with the software, then trying to repair
1. work?
2. be worth it?
3. how the hell WOULD i repair it (other than a full Checkdisk /r?)
 
Do the full Checkdisk /r. I should have been more specific about the virus.There may be a hard drive worm which has damaged sectors and is not picked up by the virus scan. I mean, how much of the data does he need? Get what you can that is important, the rest of it can be replaced or reloaded. Otherwise go through the whole scandisk bit and try to mirror it over or copy the partition.
 
dementer said:
i am going through trying to get his doc's and his saved stuff for a few things (finding some rather umm intresting stuff... russian dateing stuff...)
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lol i remember at work once some guy came in with a slow computer. We ran Adware and found heaps of, err, 'naughty' stuff (read: pron stuff). We fixed it, and quietly told the guy to make sure his son doesn't do anything, and suggested blocking software...

Anyway, back on topic, mirroring might be an option. Make sure that scandisk hasn't picked up errors, and maybe try not doing it in Explorer. I can't think of any copying programs, but they might bypass the error you're getting.
 
4keatimj said:
lol i remember at work once some guy came in with a slow computer. We ran Adware and found heaps of, err, 'naughty' stuff (read: pron stuff). We fixed it, and quietly told the guy to make sure his son doesn't do anything, and suggested blocking software...

Anyway, back on topic, mirroring might be an option. Make sure that scandisk hasn't picked up errors, and maybe try not doing it in Explorer. I can't think of any copying programs, but they might bypass the error you're getting.
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I work for the Geek Squad at Best Buy, nearly every day there is some guy in there with a major pron infection that we try and sort through
i had him come over today and try to get the info he wanted ~15% of the stuff he wanted was corrupted (mostly music)
as i type scan disc is trying to hack through this poor little harddrive (i don't think it is doing very good) when its doing its own scan it keeps freezing me while i type...
oh well, hope i will be able to get something more off of it after the scandisk
 
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