Techie question

Goat · **Posted:** Fri May 30, 2008 10:24 am

So recently when I've been downloading stuff onto a big flash drive (2GB) I've been getting lots of corrupt files and 'cyclic redundancy' errors. I doubt my sources have suddenly taken a nosedive in quality, so:

1. is the problem that my drive is getting old?
2. can this be fixed or do I need a new one?

EdgeOfForever · **Posted:** Fri May 30, 2008 10:35 am

Usually when you start getting corrupt files it's a sign that the drive is about to fail. It's not fixable, but you could probably keep using it for a while if you scandisk it everytime it starts messing up. That's what I did the last time one of my disks were failing.

Goat · **Posted:** Fri May 30, 2008 11:03 am

EdgeOfForever wrote:

Usually when you start getting corrupt files it's a sign that the drive is about to fail. It's not fixable, but you could probably keep using it for a while if you scandisk it everytime it starts messing up. That's what I did the last time one of my disks were failing.

That's what I thought. Darnit, ok thanks.

The_Voice · **Posted:** Fri May 30, 2008 5:41 pm

Yep it seems some sectors of your drive are KOd, time to get a new one.

traptunderice · **Posted:** Fri May 30, 2008 9:55 pm

Possibly format it to ignore bad sectors?

grandbazaar · **Posted:** Sat May 31, 2008 5:48 am

flash memory has a finite number of erase-write cycles so if you've been using it a lot, it might explain the failures you are getting. In that state it's better for you to replace it especially if you use to transport sensitive data.

Goat · **Posted:** Sun Jun 01, 2008 12:30 am

Tried scandisking, didn't help. Looks like a new one's in order.

Thanks for replies, all.

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