Quick Navigation: • • • • • • • Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check) Today, when browsing Windows forum, Windows Seven forum, as well as other major forums and portals, I find a great number of people are talking about the ' data error (cyclic redundancy check)' problem. For instance, let's see a true 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 you copy files, if you happen to meet the cyclic redundancy check data error, you may lose your data.

However, now, you don't need to worry about it anymore. Read this post and then you will find how to effectively solve the CRC error without losing data. What Is Cyclic Redundancy Check? 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 ways. 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'.

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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. You must run CHKDSK commands as an administrator to have 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.

Step 3: Wait for the scan to complete. The process might take longer if there're problems with many files. Once finished CHKDSK will give you a report and restart your computer. If the cyclic redundancy check error still exists, you can try formatting the disk.

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. 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'.