repair cyclic redundancy check in dbf file?

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Dunno if this is the right forum but I am trying to copy a folder and I have an archive.dbf file which doesn't copy over. After a while I get a messsage- cyclic redunancy failed or cannot read from device. The rest of the files in the folder copy nicely.
Is there a way to repair this, I'm sure this is a critical file
 
Was it not you who had a problem with your machine booting earlier this week?? Is this the same hard drive? It sounds like the disk is faulty, try run chkdsik (start > Run > chkdsk /f), and also a SMART tool to see if your disk is buggered....
 
yip it was me bro.
btw what is a smart tool?
chkdsk canont run cos the volume is in use by another process
 
SMART is a technology that is used to detect and report on disk errors that could potentially cause a loss of data/disk failure. Try download a diagnostic from your hard disk manufacturer site and run that; it will also check the SMART status.

You can also try run chcdsk /F/X, or run scandisk; right click disk > properties > tools > error checking. Then your system will run a diagnostic at startup, when the process is not locking the disk....
 
ok still busy with chkdk ...it recoverd orphsned files in stage 3 and replaced bad sectors in stage 4 now checkingfile data and its taking ages is this normal
 
Taking too long is normally an indication of a more serious problem; the bad sectors are not good either.

My advice is to stop the scandisk, and then move (not copy) everything that you can off the disk to a stable disk. Once you have moved everything that can move, run scandisk again and repair what you can, then move what you can, and repeat, until everything is off. Then download diagnostic tool from the HDD site, run that and see what the results are; maybe the disk is buggered.

How many disks do you have? Is this disk your system disk or is it secondary?
 
That's a small problem :( You need to get another machine with sufficient space to do a backup, and then plug your disk in as a slave, and perform the steps mentioned above. I would suggest that you do it with some urgency, because there is no way of knowing how long your disk will last, if it is faulty....
 
How'd this happen? And what are you trying to recover?
 
its a folder in an accounts program.
i have no clue what happened.
I was able to delete the file and replace it with a backup one. and so far everything looks peachy :)
(for now)
 
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