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General Category => Hardware => Topic started by: yippy on April 07, 2002, 11:12:01 PM

Title: HARD DISK FAILURE
Post by: yippy on April 07, 2002, 11:12:01 PM

Hi all

Appreciated advise. I did a FDISK, format the drive and no bad sector found. When I moved some jpg files (digitial photo) into the HD, it got a bad CRC report.

Is it my HD problem? Any software that can test the reliability of the HD? I am using a IBM 4.3GB HD purchase in 1997-1998.

Thanks.

Title: HARD DISK FAILURE
Post by: Fjellu on April 09, 2002, 02:14:00 PM

The disk manufacturer usually have a tool for it. Check their homepage

Title: HARD DISK FAILURE
Post by: yippy on April 18, 2002, 12:42:53 AM

Hi
Further to my posting, I did the following

1. Run Norton Speeddisk
2. Run Norton Disk Doctor
3. Run Win scandisk
4. Formatted in drive in Dos mode
5. Fdisk the drive
6. Run IBM disk utility, Erase Disk and Erase Boot sector

All above show me normal result i.e no error, no bad sector reports etc. All result OK!

However when I transfer files into the disk, the files turn out to have bad crc.

Eg. Tried unzipping a file, it reported bad crc. Tried running a exe file, give me the same result.

HD failure?

Title: HARD DISK FAILURE
Post by: TheReasonIFailed on April 18, 2002, 06:04:55 PM

And what\'s CRC?

Title: HARD DISK FAILURE
Post by: yippy on April 18, 2002, 07:22:58 PM

can\'t remember the exact term but something like cyclical redundancy check (or something to that effect)

anybody would like to comment on that?