Re: CRC errors on a USB harddisk

name <dohduhdah@xxxxxxxxx> wrote

> Lately, I've been having some problems with a portable
> USB harddisk and I'm puzzled how to resolve them.

> I use a cheap USB enclosure for a 200 GB maxtor disk. I've run the
> maxblast utility for windows which said it enabled support for large drives.

> I can check the drive in win XP and it doesn't report any
> errors on the drive, even when I perform a surface scan.
> However, when I use the drive and copy files from it to another
> drive, this fails with a CRC (cyclic redundency check) error.

> Does anyone know what might be causing
> it and how to recover from this problem?

Try one of the other USB ports and see if that makes any difference on that.

Try a different USB cable, not all are that great with USB2,

> Thanks in advance for any feedback on this issue, kind regards, Niek


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