Click here and get The Ask Leo! The fact is, stuff happens. Things break. When things break, the failure can be catastrophic. Failures can also be much more subtle, not showing up for weeks or months, or perhaps never. Become a Patron of Ask Leo! This is mostly about the hard disk in your computer, but can apply to any data-storage medium. In the worst case, the typo — perhaps even a tiny one — will render some key information or plot point completely unintelligible.
This is one of the reasons that the more rugged laptop drives are also somewhat slower: the mechanisms are often built more solidly with motion in mind so as to minimize this risk. For example, data that used to be:. Hard drives often run for years without a problem. It quite literally has happened to me. You cannot prevent a hard drive from developing bad sectors or failing. It happens. The best you can do is prepare. That way, when — not if — failure happens, you can replace the failed component usually the drive , restore your files, and get on with your life as if nothing major happened.
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Gamma rays cause these sorts of problems. A friend proved it to my by pointing out that hard drives are not protect from gramma rays. Seemed reasonable to me :. Normally, the number of gamma rays that go through a typical house in a year can be counted on the fingers of a single hand, unless you live at m altitude or higher. Not practical and only used in some rare laboratories. And, no, it was not the only reasonable explanation for your problem, whatever that problem was.
Some possibilities are: faulty area on the disk surface, a bad spot can have developed over time, several software glitch can also cause data corruption. Please keep in mind that those are only a tiny sample of possible causes. I remember when hard drives were vulnerable to cigarette smoke. Bogons are capable of turning perfectly functioning software and hardware into malfunctioning software or hardware.
Certain persons who usually wear ties and suits, or military uniforms are bogon emitters. When a bogon emitter comes by to examine the new software or hardware, the bogon flow between the bogon emitter wearing a suit and tie , and the bogon sink the software or hardware causes the increased BOGOSITY within the tech device. Thus errors and failures happen at this time. I am struggling right now financially. Do you know of any moonlighting jobs using your pc where you can work from home in the evenings or on the weekend?
I believe that if gamma radiation very high energy x-rays can cause data coruption on a HDD you have a more serious problem. Your exposure to the same radiation. As it is gamma should have no effect on a HDD. Moving a drive while it is in use or dropping it can an most likely will cause problems as Leo suggested.
Again if you have a gamma source near enough that you think it could be causing your data corruption then you yourself are in some danger. It seems that a careless shutdown or accidental power loss can cause file damage…can you comment?
This method is available to fix most Microsoft files corrupted problem. This is the easiest way but only works if you get a message like this:. Do you want to recover the contents of this document? If you trust the source of this content, click Yes. We found a problem with some content in [filename].
Do you want us to recover as much as we can? If you trust the source of this workbook, click Yes. In this situation, just click "Yes". Sometimes the file shows corrupted because of a wrong file format. If you just get the file from your client or friend, it might be corrupted during the transfer due to compatibility issues.
If the file has always been on your computer and it just gets corrupted for no reason, somehow the problem can also repair that. There is no risk to try. Step 1. Make a copy of this corrupted file since changing the file format might cause damage to it. Step 2. Change the file to a similar file format eg. If your file doesn't have a file format show after the file name, manually add the file extension such as.
Windows itself offers the Error Check function. It will check the drive for file system errors. If the corrupted file is a system file, it can scan, find out, and fix the error. Here is how to perform a standard error check on the drive:.
Open the Computer and then right-click on the hard drive that has the corrupted files. In reply to xianjoong's post on April 22, I did as u said and stopped all other services but microsoft. Same problem occurs. I am in huge trouble. Please help me. I have this windows 10 installed on my father's laptop too. Same problem is occurring. You have to help me. This is getting ridiculous. I might have to jump down to Windows 8.
Hoping for a quick reply. CRC errors: If RAR archive is damaged due to addition of extra bits to the original file during download or transmission, then WinRAR displays error message as it is corrupted while extracting its content. Other possible reasons: Occurrence of some unknown errors while trying to compressing the files with unsecured encryption application. Improper downloading, sudden power outage while downloading or creating a RAR archive, file header corruption, etc. Asked 9 years, 7 months ago.
Active 3 years, 8 months ago. Viewed 23k times. I have a very weird problem with my download script it basically 1. Improve this question. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Lawrence Cherone Lawrence Cherone DanBray what a terrible edit, shame on community for approving — Lawrence Cherone.
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