Data Error Cyclic Redundancy Check

How To Fix Data Error Cyclic Redundancy Check

How to Fix Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check)! Look Here!

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In the Windows Seven forum and other major forums and portals, a large number of people are talking about the "data error (cyclic redundancy check)" problem. Let's see a real life example from cnet.com:

My Laptop shows 'Data error (cyclic redundancy check)' error while copying data from external HDD to my laptop. How to fix this problem.

When copying files, meeting the cyclic redundancy check data error might lose your data. No need to worry

What Is Cyclic Redundancy Check?

Note: Before fixing CRC error, we think you should know what the cyclic redundancy check is.

A cyclic redundancy check (CRC), invented by W. Wesley Peterson in 1961 and further developed by the CCITT (Comité Consultatif International Telegraphique et Telephonique), is basically an error checking technique used by computers to specially check the data on your hard drive and optical disks.

1: Solved - Drive Is Not Accessible, Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check)

Has your hard drive ever been inaccessible because of the data error (cyclic redundancy check)? (picture as below)

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When it comes to inaccessible hard drive, I guess you might be interested in this post 10 Situations Where We Can't Access a Partition in Windows, Along with Solutions.

CRC error can be caused by a variety of factors, such as registry corruption, a cluttered hard disk, an unsuccessful program installation, misconfigured files, etc. What happens when there is data error cyclic redundancy check?

First, they recover lost data from cyclic redundancy check external hard drive, SD card, USB drive, and other storage devices.

Second, they fix cyclic redundancy check data error.

You might be wondering:

"How to successfully recover lost data from drive which reports CRC error?"

To recover lost data from drive with CRC error, MiniTool Power Data Recovery is the best choice. It offers excellent performance, high security and simple operations. Download the file data recovery software and have a try. Here, we take the trial edition for example.

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Step 1: Launch this professional data recovery software to get its main interface as follows.

In the main window of MiniTool Power Data Recovery, you can see 4 different data recovery modules, and they are This PC (it is selected by default), Removable Disk Drive, Hard Disk Drive and CD/DVD Drive.

Here, we take This PC for example to show how to recover data from a storage device - external hard drive, SD card, USB drive, etc - with cyclic redundancy check.

Step 2: Select the target drive that has the error "Drive is not accessible, data error (cyclic redundancy check)", and then click on "Scan" located at the lower right corner.

In this window, you can click the "Stop" button to cancel the scanning process as long as you see that your needed files have been scanned as shown below. However, it is recommended to wait until the full scan finishes to get the best recovery result.

Step 3: Save all needed files on a safe place.

After scanning, all found data are listed in the following window with a tree view. Now, you can click the "Filter" feature to find needed files quickly and safely. Next, check and preview needed files. Finally, save all selected files in a safe place. It is recommended to store selected files on another drive.

Top RecommendationThe trail edition can only scan lost data. To recover data, you need to choose its advanced edition. For instance, the Personal Deluxe edition not only can recover all found data, but also but also can recover data when PC won't boot.

With several clicks of the mouse, you are able to recover data from drive with CRC error without affecting the original data.

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I used this software to successfully recover data from drive with CRC error!

Note: If your hard drive is physically damaged, please send it to professional data recovery companies for help.

After recovering data by using MiniTool Power Data Recovery, it is time to check drive error and fix cyclic redundancy check error by the following simple methods.

Data Error Cyclic Redundancy Check Fix/Repair

Method 1. Running the CHKDSK Utility

Step 1: Right-click the target drive you want to check, and then click Properties->Tools. Next, click "Check Now…" under "Error Checking".

Step 2: Click on "Automatically fix the file system errors" to do a basic check and automatically repair problems with file and folders, and then click "Start".

Sometimes, running CHKDSK via right click makes it unable to run the scan and repair properly, and at this time you can try the alternate method of running CHKDSK.

Want to know the best way?

Step 1: Open the command prompt as Administrator. Only administrator has the necessary privileges to execute the scan.

Step 2: Type "chkdsk /f x:" into the command prompt. The letter "x" should be replaced with the letter name of the drive you'd like to run the scan on. Press Enter to run the command.

Step 3: Wait for the scan to complete. The process might take longer if there are problems with many files. Once CHKDSK has finished, it will give you a report and restart your computer.

If the cyclic redundancy check error still exists, you can try formatting the disk.

Method 2. Formatting the Disk

Note: Format will delete all data in your disk. It is recommended to recover lost data before what you are doing.

To format drive to fix the cyclic redundancy check error, you can try using MiniTool Partition Wizard Free.

Step 1: Download and install MiniTool Partition Wizard on computer. And then, launch it to get its main interface.

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Step 2: Select the target disk, click "Format Partition" feature from the left panel.

Step 3: Set partition label, file system and cluster size for the selected partition and click "OK".

Step 4: Click "Apply" button on the top to apply the change.

Step 5: Restart your PC.

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After learning how to fix the "Drive is not accessible, data error (cyclic redundancy check)" problem, let's take a look at two other situations where you will encounter the CRC error and their corresponding solutions.

2: Solved - "Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check)" Error Message in Outlook

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After downloading emails from Microsoft Outlook to your local computer, you may receive one of the following error messages:

File path\filename.pst could not be accessed. Data error. Cyclic redundancy check.

or:

Data error (cyclic redundancy check)

In this error message, path\filename.pst correspond to the location and the file name of your Personal Folders (.pst) file--for example, C:\mypst.pst.

You may not be able to view some of the downloaded messages. When you click your Deleted Items folder, you may receive the following error message:

Error 0x80040116

Cause

Generally, cyclic redundancy check error occurs when your PST files is corrupted or maybe the hard disk has some issues where your PST file is currently stored. This error manifests, when you try to copy the original PST file to another location.

In this situation, what should we do? Is it possible to recover lost emails? Can we solve this CRC error?

OF COURSE! WE CAN!

To resolve this issue, you may first try using free MiniTool Power Data Recovery to recover lost Outlook emails (There might be little hope for email recovrey to work, but you should give it a try regardless..), and then check your hard drive to fix CRC error. After that, re-create your personal folder files.