From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: January 17, 2006
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: Cyclic Redundancy error
>
> Leo,
> Hi Leo, I've been having a problem where my MSN messenger
> history files become corrupt and unreadable. It happens when
> I'm closing a conversation, my computer freezes for a few
> seconds and then its fine, but when I go to read that
> particular file, it opens with an error message, and it won't
> open in notepad either, so I can't even check the code for
> errors. It says "Cyclic Redundancy" error when I try to copy
> it to another computer to read it. Please help me find a way
> to un-corrupt these files! haha thank you!
A Cyclic Redundancy Check, or CRC, error typically means a
hard drive problem, and your symptoms do match. The fact that
it's happening with one file (the messenger log) would tend
to indicate a bad spot on the disk.
I'll point you to this article for some suggestions and tools
to run ... specifically, you should run chkdsk, as outlined
here: http://ask-leo.com/how_do_i_fix_a_bad_sector_on_my_hard_drive.html
Thanks for asking,
Leo
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