re: All installation files on hard-drive are corrupted.
Monday, December 2, 2002 at 10:33 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by rebootd
(118 messages posted)
You said that files that were "already on the hard drive" were corrupted - were these
also downloaded? Or were they fine at one time and became corrupted while sitting
on your hard drive? That would indicate something going on with your OS, not necessarily
with your downloads.
And what do you mean by "installation and zip files" - do you mean that only .exe's
and .zip's are getting corrupted but not other kinds of files? You said you already
reinstalled Windows -what was the registry error that you got? I don't know what
more of a "major overhaul" you can do to Windows other than format and reinstall,
but if the problem has recreated itself, can you isolate whether it is due to your
locally running software, or whether it is coming from the server? (Did you also
reinstall a program that affected your operating system?) As a side note, have you
run scandisk to check for hard drive errors?
The only time I have had consistent trouble with a file being corrupted from download
was because of the form it was being sent in. How are you downloading these files?
Are they from a particular server? Some ftp servers may send in ASCII form - try
using an FTP client that allows you to set the type of transfer to ascii (or do it
manually "type=ascii") - or try it in binary form and see if it helps - compare
number of bytes in the downloaded/corrupted files.
On Sunday, December 1, 2002 at 11:02 pm, Jeff wrote:
>Hey guys, hope someone can help me with this problem of mine.
>
>I've been getting constant CRC and IO errors in all the installation and zip files
>on my hard drive. This is typically the case with files over five megabytes. Both
>files which are already on the hard disk and files which I download are corrupted.
>I've already reformatted my hard drive, reinstalled windows and all that (when I
>did so, after restarting a couple of times I received a registry error) and yet
the
>problem has persisted with new files which I've downloaded.
>I know it's not my ISP, as I've already contacted them.
>I'm beginning to think the problem is with a bad stack of ram, but before I go into
>major overhaul mode I was wondering if any more experienced people have some ideas?
>Is it a problem with windows perchance? I'm at my wits end here.
>
>Thanks for your help.
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