Tuesday 19 November 2013

Fixing A Harddisk Cyclic Redundancy Error






The blog post is here: http://www.carrieandjonathan.com/how-i-fixed-cyclic-redundancy-check-iomega-external-hard-drive-error/ Here's how I fixed the harddisk...
Video Rating: 4 / 5

25 comments:

  1. How to fix it up on a brand new hard disk where there is no partitions?
    When I wanted to create a new partition it gives me this error. I can't
    even format it to a Linux EXT4 partitions and Swap spaces. Primary, Logical
    partition nothing works.

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  2. How can I remove the data off the drive if Cant get to it inn the first
    place because of the error message?

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  3. You are very welcome! Hope you gave it a thumbs up and subscribed to this
    channel. Also, I hope you have removed all the data from the hard drive.
    It's probably a bad drive at this point.

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  4. HEY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS HELPFUL VIDEO, IT SAVE MY MY ALL DATA. THANK
    YOU MAN :)

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  5. Honestly I don't know. I'm sorry not to be of more help for you with your
    drive.

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  6. it says it can't fix a raw drive.. is there a way around that

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  7. You are welcome. Make sure to pull your data off the hard drive.

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  8. Unfortunately, I don't know what to do if it's sticking on your hard drive
    in the check disk process. If I come across any other solutions for fixing
    the drive, I'll let you know.

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  9. I'm not sure if your hard drive is recoverable then.

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  10. Hey the same thing happens to me at 45% in Stage 2. Did you ever get your
    problem resolved?

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  11. Thanks so much for the video, it is the SAME issue I have with my external
    drive and it ALMOST helps me but like one of the other commenters, mine
    gets stuck in the stage 2 of 3 at 45%. End of story! Oh well, thanks for
    the info though...if you have any ideas, please share. Thanks!!!

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  12. You're very welcome. Hope you get your files back off the hard drive. I
    would recommend getting rid of the hard drive as well.

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  13. worked for me! Thanks a lot for posting this! moving all the files as I'm
    typing!

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  14. You're welcome! I would recommend getting everything off of the hard drive
    as this may be a sign that your drive is going to crash.

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  15. wow. this solved my problem in a snap. thanks!

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  16. Fantastic! Thanks for commenting! I would get everything off of that Hard
    Drive as soon as possible. When you start getting these cyclic redundancy
    issues, it's generally a sign that the hard drive is on it's way out.

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  17. Much appreciated! This did the trick on my HDD using the x: /f/r method as
    it found one bad sector.

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  18. so strange,windows 7 recognizes and loads the driver and can be seen under
    device manager but cannot be accessed from even dos prompt to chkdsk. Any
    advice?

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  19. Unfortunately, no. I put the advice I have into the video. I'm sorry not to
    be of more help for you.

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  20. I seem to be stuck at 73 percent and only stage 2 of 3. How long is this
    suppose to take? It's a bit worrying that it's taking so long.

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  21. can someone help me . i says "cannot open volume for direct access" so i
    cant check my disk.

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  22. You can't use this option if your drive does not mount or show up in your
    system.

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  23. Great! Glad to hear that it helped you and that you're taking the smart
    step of backing up your hard drive.

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  24. I would just google it... that's the only way I would know how to do that
    with a hard disk. Sorry not to be of more help.

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