Re: CRC errors on a USB harddisk


Rod Speed wrote:
> 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

I doubt that could be the problem since the disk appeared to work ok
for a long time. Only lately when the disk starts to get relatively
full (10 gb of free space left) I encounter these problems.

.

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