cyclical redundancy check

[zoobernut]

So I am trying to back up all the files on my laptop and every time I try to copy everything over I keep getting the cyclical redundancy check error. Is there any way around it or any way to fix it? I moved everything that I want to back up into a folder together and it is about 45gb. It won't let me copy the folder over it just gives me the error every time.


Thank you.

[fishstix]

I think that's a hardware error, something like data was written on a bad sector on the HD, and cant be read. You can try some data recovery software to try and save it, but it's not perfect.

[Auspice]

If you're already getting cyclical redundancy you're probably already fucked but like fishstix said; try some data recovery shit and fucking PRAY. Every cyclical redundancy error I've ever gotten meant shit was already too far gone to save though :/

[zoobernut]

It is really weird because it is on seemingly random files. Like I have my music folder with a couple thousand songs in it and like every 30 or 40th song gives me the error. Really frustrating because it won't let me just transfer stuff off the HD that is ok it just errors out so I have to sort through everything by hand and grab all the stuff I can.

Is there any good data recovery software that I can use and try out? Have any recommendations?

[Solefald]

your destination hard drive is failing, do not attempt to write anything to it

edit: one of your drives is failing, from your description it's not clear which one.

how are your drives connected? if one is on a usb connection, that might be causing the errors. some external drives are very bad at copying large amounts of data over usb or firewire.

[zoobernut]

I have been getting the error writing to two different drives one connected by usb and the other just connected by my LAN. The laptop is connected to the lan wirelessly and the desktop computer is wired connection.