uTorrent: Data error (cyclic redundancy check)

For all those have been confounded by this error while downloading torrents, all the available blogs and posts on this suggests, your hard disk has gone for a toss. Delete the existing download, re-download.

Kind of frustrating, really frustrating. My experience differs a bit. While in truest sense it is always true, that this error is coming due to read errors from your hard drive, it is not always true that it is a undo-able physical error on your disk. It could be a logical one. This means, there's still chance for you. Breath and schedule a scan on your drive the next time Windows (I was using XP professional, SP 2) starts. This again depends on which drive you got the error on. If its the one which the operating system is having exclusive access to, you have to schedule the check, the next time your OS loads. If its a secondary drive, you can do it with few clicks only without a re-boot.

If you are lucky, Windows would correct the error, and you'll have your download back, right from where it got screwed up.

Summary: While Data error (cyclic redundancy check) could really mean, its bye bye for your partially complete torrent download, its always not true. If you are lucky, the error is logical one and is very much correctable. Don't loose heart, just give a try and you might recover it from where it got corrupt.

Cheers!

Comments

Lenin said…
DUDE! I am just so grateful that I came across your post before actually deleting my 2 GB torrent file, and worst, doubting the intergrity of my 6 months old 500 GB hard-drive.
Just as you mentioned, although it could be the result of 'real' physical damage to the HDD, it was, in my case, luckily, the result of logical errors.
Right clicking on C: and in TOOLS scheduling the ERROR CHECK with FIX ERRORS and stuff did the trick.

THANKS A TON ONCE AGAIN FOR MAKING THE data cycle redundancy errors IN TORRENT WORLD A MORE OPTIMISTIC SITUATION :)
September 13, 2009 at 9:48 PM
Anonymous said…
Thanks a billion times, a 6GB DL would have been deleted and re-downloaded without you :D
September 25, 2009 at 10:04 AM
Anonymous said…
Good Work Dude!!
October 17, 2009 at 3:41 PM
Anonymous said…
I'm sorry but could you give me specific instructions to fix this? I am soo freaking out!
April 27, 2010 at 1:46 AM
Souvik said…
If your uTorrent data is saved on C:, right click on it. Click on properties -> Tools. Then click on the Check Now button. If its where your OS is installed, the system would suggest you to schedule the check and it would run when the OS starts up next time.

Let the scan run and if you are lucky, the error might be a logical one and gets fixed.

Cheers!
April 27, 2010 at 9:21 AM
Anonymous said…
Dude. You're awesome. You just saved a 12 GB download.
May 7, 2010 at 8:42 AM
Anonymous said…
Hmmm Funny thing is, whenever i get this torrent, i just start off the torrent again by clicking start and it just does that, no problems. Wierd
July 3, 2011 at 10:20 AM
BollocksWanker said…
Thank you, I knew there had to be a simple fix! YOUR THE MAN :)
October 16, 2013 at 1:41 PM
BollocksWanker said…
I knew there had to be a simple fix! YOUR THE MAN :)
October 16, 2013 at 1:43 PM
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