The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Corrupt File - How did this happen?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by cathy, Mar 4, 2009.

  1. cathy

    cathy Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    47
    Messages:
    551
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Okay umm...sorry if I'm overreacting or whatever, but umm I've never had a corrupt file before.

    Umm...just reformatted my comp this morning, finished installing all my programs, transferred all my data, so I went to do some web-surfing. I went to the toilet so I put my computer to sleep. The next thing I know when I wake my computer up, it tells me that a particular file is corrupted.

    Can anyone tell me how this happened, and what steps I should take? :(

    Thanks.

    PS: This happened on Windows XP
     
    cathy, Mar 4, 2009
    #1
  2. NegatiVe

    NegatiVe Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    92
    Messages:
    225
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    More information would be nice, what kind of file is it? (file extension) My guess is a zip archive? Things like this happens alot when files are sent by email and decrypted erroneously.
     
    NegatiVe, Mar 4, 2009
    #2
  3. cathy

    cathy Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    47
    Messages:
    551
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Hmm...it was an entire folder for my 3rd lesson of a module, 'Web Development'.

    I don't think there was much in it other than a .pptx file and a .html file, but it was transferred around a couple of times though.

    From my school comp -> thumbdrive -> harddisk -> thumbdrive ->harddisk -> external harddisk -> harddisk.
     
    cathy, Mar 4, 2009
    #3
  4. Wishmaker

    Wishmaker BBQ Expert

    Reputations:
    379
    Messages:
    1,848
    Likes Received:
    35
    Trophy Points:
    66
    Did you "safely remove the hardware" everytime?

    XP is also know to fail in writing on the disc. It cannot flush the cache sometimes.
     
    Wishmaker, Mar 4, 2009
    #4
  5. cathy

    cathy Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    47
    Messages:
    551
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Yea, I always do that.

    Anyway I ran Microsoft's ChkDsk and it runs fine now so, yay. Thanks for the replies anyway. :)
     
    cathy, Mar 4, 2009
    #5
  6. sublime313

    sublime313 Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    190
    Messages:
    563
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30

    ahem... uhhh.. :eek:
     
    sublime313, Mar 5, 2009
    #6
  7. NegatiVe

    NegatiVe Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    92
    Messages:
    225
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Oh you're funny. =P
     
    NegatiVe, Mar 5, 2009
    #7