I am looking at PC for a friend that has stated he is having problems. Trouble booting and transferring files. I firstly backed all his data to an external drive. This is where I first encountered an error ?cannot copy data error cyclic redundancy check? I used CHKDSK to repair bad sectors and then was able to transfer files and kept running it for about a week (no problems) but monitoring the Event Log I notice an error.
I had another drive which I used as data storage device on an older pc which I installed on the same machine and found that when attempting to copy data of this device to an external drive I also encountered the ?cannot copy data error cyclic redundancy check? error (Curiously).
I continued running the machine for a week after updating drivers and running the CHKDSK and have now noticed errors in the Event viewer.
?The device,
I notice that these errors were occurring regularly whilst the users was having problems and since I performed the CHKDSK operation there has only been one instance of this.
From what I have googled there seem to be a few possibilities here:
a.)the hdd is fried – on the way out
b.)there is a virus on the PC
c.)Controller / Cable is fried
The HDD is a SATA Western Digital 500gb
OS is XP SP2
2gb RAM
Intel Core 2 Duo E4500
(Sorry I couldn?t be more specific I do not have access to the PC at the moment)
1.)Has anyone encountered this problem before?
2.)Does anyone know where to download a hdd diagnostics tool from
Western Digital
3.)Or has anyone seen a virus with these symptoms ( I found a web page with a case where this had occurred.)
4.)I am curious as to why both HDDs had the redundancy error ( I suppose both could just be fried) Any suggestions?
5.)If a controller is fried how do you identify this, and does this require a MB replacement.
