How Do I Fix A Cyclic Redundancy Check On A Slave Drive (XP) Trying To Backup An OUTLOOK PST File?
Cyclic Redundancy Check errors are repaired by low-level formatting your hard disk drive (which erases all your data) and then restoring from your most recent backup. Oh, you do not have a “most recent” backup? To verify that it is your OutLook PST file which has the CRC error: C:\> Copy D:\Your_OutLook.PST NUL: which will try to read your entire OutLook PST file and “write” a copy to the NUL: device (which keeps your original, but throws away a copy). If it is indeed your OutLook PST file which has the CRC error, then C:\> D:\XCopy /C Your_OutLook.PST C:\New_Copy_of_Your_OutLook.PST where D: is your old drive & C: is your new drive. The /C switch tries to keep copying even past errors. The copy will be missing pieces, so you will need to run OutLook’s ScanPst to attempt to repair it. If you have utilities like Gibson Research SpinRite, Paul Mace Utilities, or Symantec Norton Utilities, then you can try to recover the bad sector(s) with the CRC errors.
