utorrent: Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check)

Desecrator said:
^Ah so you were in the same boat once! :p

Did you get the replacement yet? I suppose your netbook also serves as the primary download rig?

Damn I need to backup the data quick! :ashamed:
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They didn't have the replacement in the stock. My HDD is still bad and I am no more downloading. Probably after a week, when they have the replacement, I'll get back to them and get the drive replaced.

Yupp do take the backup.

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iyengar said:
use live Disk to chkdsk... else its useless... I always say that use live disk for chkdsk.. the System should have the complete control over the HDD to fix things.. not half control or less control.

eBRo
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In my case I knew that the bad sector was in my storage drive since its the only place where utorrent writes. When I did chkdsk d: /r, it removed all the handles to drive D and thus its as good as booting from live CD. Using the live CD ensures, though, that the primary OS drive also gets scanned.
 
I had this kind of similar error once.. dont remember the exact error name though..

My ISP had gone crazy.. i was gettin 10 MBytePS from torrents... on a 256kbps connection.. so i added as many torrents as i could from a private well seeded tracker.. almost 100 gb i dnlded that night..

I had forced started all the torrents at the same time to get the max speed i could get..

So my speed was gradually increasing and as soon as it hit the 8 - 10 MBPS mark... some hdd cyclic error notification started on the utorrent status bar.. and kept on increasing from 1 - 100% and as soon as it became 100 u torrent crashed..

this happened 4 - 5 times... as soon as the speed reached 10MBPs mark..

may be writing simultaneously from lot connections at high speed gave the hdd some problems..

after that i set the limit to 6MBPS and it ran normally without any error..

May be it was the same thing as you had got..

do check n tell..
 
^No I did not experience any speed boosts on my ISP (512kbps btw). There was just one torrent being downloaded and that was this one.

In any case, I am downloading each file separately. Once it's completed, I shall RMA the drive than live with it.

@6pack: Shall post the results of the Speedfan test later this evening but I presume the hard drive is dying already.
 
^No not chkdsk /r. Will do that - any idea how long will take on this drive?

Did the HD Tune quick scan and showed no bad sectors.
 
Desecrator said:
^No not chkdsk /r. Will do that - any idea how long will take on this drive?

Did the HD Tune quick scan and showed no bad sectors.
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In my case the chkdsk and quick HD Tune didn't show any errors in the first run. After I did one complete exhaustive run, the HD Tune could pick up the errors. The chkdsk would still not show any errors, without the /r flag.

It can take more than 2 hours.
 
Finally ran CHKDSK /r yesterday overnight starting 12 AM and when I woke up by 6:30 AM, it was crawling at 20% and reported that it had repaired some bad sectors in file xxxx.mkv.

Painfully slow, I decided to restart and then XP wouldn't load at all. :|

I have dismantled the netbook back cover and removed the hard drive - shall plug the drive into my main system and recover the torrent files being downloaded ATM. Shall plonk in a Seagate 320GB 2.5" drive (from my iomega portable drive) into the netbook and have this WD sent for RMA.

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Update - I couldn't recover anything from that drive. Tried connecting it to the controller of my external 2.5" drive via USB and connected to the system via SATA port directly - na da. The drive has to be sent to RMA. ):

Anyways, I plonked in the Seagate drive into the netbook from the external drive and installed Windows 7 32bit and all is fine now.

Thanks for the support guys! I''ll keep this thread updated on how the WD RMA progresses in the meantime. :)
 
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