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atf300
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 Posted: Sat, 20th Nov 2010 03:12 Post subject: All Zips and Rars suddenly corrupted |
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Just turned on the pc today and most zips and rars on one of my hdds are corrupted , and im sure they were'nt before , could this be the hdd failing or a virus ? although when i copy new rars on it they're fine so something must have done it , since it doesnt happend all the time.
the rars i can recover with the recovery software , zips no dice.
any input is much appreciated
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Nov 2010 03:13 Post subject: |
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Ronhrin
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Nov 2010 03:15 Post subject: |
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| Mortibus wrote: | | could be bad ram |
Or a faulty drive.
He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither
- Benjamin Franklin - 1759
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Nov 2010 03:16 Post subject: |
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I'd tend to agree with mortibus, it's unlikely that a failing HDD would just kill the rars and zips, and I think while they are extracting these load into memory to prepare for the copy as one file. Shouldn't occur every time though
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Ronhrin
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Nov 2010 03:23 Post subject: |
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| Spazmotic wrote: | | I'd tend to agree with mortibus, it's unlikely that a failing HDD would just kill the rars and zips, and I think while they are extracting these load into memory to prepare for the copy as one file. Shouldn't occur every time though |
I also think that, but it's also a considerable possibility that it could be the drive.
If you get unused RAM sticks, I would suggest to test them.
If not, test the disk on another computer.
If the files extract fine then, you can eliminate that the disk is not the problem!
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Nov 2010 03:25 Post subject: |
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^ Agreed, Try both of those and it should either eliminate or confirm the suspect component quite well.
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atf300
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Nov 2010 03:39 Post subject: |
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the ram could be it since its an o/c machine , ill copy the the rars to my other pc and check there.
also most rar report an unexpected ending.
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Ronhrin
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Nov 2010 03:41 Post subject: |
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| atf300 wrote: | the ram could be it since its an o/c machine , ill copy the the rars to my other pc and check there.
also most rar report an unexpected ending. |
Hmm, try to reset your BIOS, perhaps you have a improper OC configuration or bad Ram timings.
Reset your OC to standard values and try to unrar your files.
Most likely that should be it!
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atf300
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Nov 2010 04:05 Post subject: |
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the hdd seems to be failing , it has a massive amount of bad sectors recovered after i ran chksk.
some of the files listed were the ones with rar corruption.
the o/c has been running stable for a year and a half , i regularly stress test it , so im thinking it shouldn't be that.
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Nov 2010 04:16 Post subject: |
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no, wait.. do not trust your hd check until you verify your memory!!!
ofcourse it will show drive corruption if your memory can't be relied on
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atf300
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| Posted: Sat, 20th Nov 2010 04:27 Post subject: |
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atf300
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| Posted: Sun, 21st Nov 2010 01:15 Post subject: |
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update : all other hdds in machine are fine , the drive in question has a huge amount of bad clusters , will try some russian software if it can help otherwise ive seem to have lost most of my mp3 collection and about 100 gb of fsx stuff which ive managed to collect during the last year .
the thing is the files are still there so there must be a way to fix them , its not the usual file recovery situation , does anyone have any experience like this ?
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| Posted: Sun, 21st Nov 2010 03:01 Post subject: |
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use a linux boot dvd like knoppix and dd the entire device to another (larger) drive as a file
or use some other HD imaging software
if you can do this, you now have a full image of the drive to do recovery on instead of fiddling with the physical drive which now is damaged by every act of reading it, and risk loosing it all
then get a piece of file recovery software
i've found the active@ products particularly useful
active@ file recovery in this case (there exists a cracked release of 'Active@ File Recovery 7.5.1 Portable' somewhere)
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atf300
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| Posted: Wed, 24th Nov 2010 22:21 Post subject: |
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just and update : took the drive to a restore specialist , he says one of the heads isnt calibrated properly, all the data should be restorable , if not i dont have to pay . not half bad ,costs only about 100 -150 eur ,
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| Posted: Wed, 24th Nov 2010 22:32 Post subject: |
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| atf300 wrote: | | just and update : took the drive to a restore specialist , he says one of the heads isnt calibrated properly, all the data should be restorable , if not i dont have to pay . not half bad ,costs only about 100 -150 eur , |
your going to pay that much for a fucking fix on a drive, forget it buy a new one. geebus. |
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atf300
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| Posted: Wed, 24th Nov 2010 22:45 Post subject: |
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| moosenoodles wrote: | | atf300 wrote: | | just and update : took the drive to a restore specialist , he says one of the heads isnt calibrated properly, all the data should be restorable , if not i dont have to pay . not half bad ,costs only about 100 -150 eur , |
your going to pay that much for a fucking fix on a drive, forget it buy a new one. geebus. |
well , the drive has probably the only thing on it which isnt on any of my backups , and that data is worth the price he is asking for fixing it . i already bought a replacement drive
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