Corruption is the unwanted, unintentional and accidental change of data so that it is no longer usable.
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Flash drive unable to save data properly?
My flash drive is unable to save data properly. Whenever I save files on my flash drive,
it shows all data, and when I unplug it and plug it back in, it continues to shows all data (including ...
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How to extract data from a partially corrupt multi-part rar archive?
I downloaded a video that's 11 parts the other day. Today I tried to extract it but it tells me that part04 is corrupt. So I checked "keep broken files", but of course it only gave me the beginning of ...
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Error 0x6ba (RPC server is unavailable) when running sfc /scannow on Windows XP in Safe Mode
I think that my mup.sys file is corrupt. I received the following error when trying to access a network share that was located on my Windows 7 box, from my Windows XP box:
No network provider ...
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ffmpeg/avconv getting file reports in time not offset
Using the advice from another superuser question I'm using the following to check video files for errors:
avconv -v error -i myfile -f null -
Unfortunately, this gives me an error in this format:
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ExFat partition not mounting - No main bitmap was found
Had 2tb hard drive for about a year.
Was plugged into windows pc, actively using Exfat partitions 'iTunes' and 'windows'.
The power cord for the hard drive was pulled out, reconnected in both the ...
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How to remove a directory which looks corrupted
I am using Ubuntu 9.10. When I examine a directory, it shows as '?' for user/ownership.
How can I remove it?
-rw-r--r-- 1 hap497 hap497 1822 2010-01-28 22:48 IntSizeHash.h
d????????? ? ? ...
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Windows7 corrupted profile - prevention exists?
I have dedicated Windows7 (not on domain) virtual machine for overnight automation testing. Some commands (mySQLdump, tscon.exe) must be run under administrator account.
Last week administrator ...
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Recover truecrypt partition without MBR + recovery disk?
I destroyed my mbr and have no truecrypt rescue disk. However, I do know my password and my encryption setup (e.g. hashing functions and ciphers used).
This happened after an upgrade to version 7.0a ...
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Fixing corrupt files or corrupt file table on a USB drive?
I was doing a virus scan on an external USB drive while copying data over to it. While AVG was scanning my system got locked up I think due to the USB drive running out of space and it required a ...
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Windows 7 hangs on login to one user account only
I get the continuous spinning blue wheel in Windows 7 64-bit when I start up in just one user account and I can't access the task bar nor the Windows Start button. Other accounts don't have this ...
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The file is possibly corrupt. The file header checksum does not match the computed checksum
I had a laptop (Compaq C700, 2 GB RAM, 160 GB hard disk drive) installed with Windows XP. When it was in standby mode due to power interruption, it switched off and after restarting it ...
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Fixing a corrupt partition? (RAW data)
Apologies for misusing some terminology here... I'm attempting to fix a friend's laptop (Dell Inspiron 1545) which was suffering from the error "disk error press any key to restart" on every boot, ...
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Hard Drive Caddy corrupting drives
Something very funny is going on with my External Hard drive Caddy. I am running Linux Mint 14.
I had a laptop breakdown just before Christmas, removed the drive and placed it into a 2.5" SATA ...
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Does RAID 1 protect against corruption?
Does Raid 1 protect against data corruption? For example, let's say that I am keeping all of my important files on a NAS that uses 2 disks in a RAID 1. If one hard drive has some kind of internal ...
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Automating the scanning of graphics files for corruption
Does anyone know of a good program that can scan graphics files (particularly JPG, GIF, and PNG) for corruption?
Preferably, it would be able to scan a bunch of photos automatically and have some ...
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Photoshop CS6 Corrupted File recovery
Last night I was working on a client application mock-up in photoshop, but was goin to take a break from my work so I saved the .PSD file on my internal HDD and put my computer into stand-by mode once ...
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Repairing a corrupt exFat file system
Long story short : I messed up my GPT and went on to try to fix it without asking anyone, just searching around. Didn't turn out too well.
Right now all I'm concerned about is a 500GB that I ...
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Unable to open corrupted xlsx file
Below is the error while I try to open the file:
Excel cannot open the file '1.xlsx' because the file format or the file extension is not valid. Verify that the file has not been corrupted and that ...
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How to fix corrupted .mp4 audio recording file?
I have an mp4 recording file but it is corrupted - maybe there was something wrong happening durring the record session and interupted the process.
I think the first part of the record is still valid ...
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unreadable corrupted ntfs partition - lost clusters reported
partition magic is reporting multiple 'bad file record signature' and 'lost clusters' errors on my 250GB samsung sata disk (connected via usb on a xp sp3). Unfortunately PM is unable to fix. PM shows ...
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Corrupt file indicative of corrupt hard drive?
I have noticed that two files on my (almost full) 2 TB hard drive have been corrupted. One file has 20 kB (!) corrupted, i.e. consecutive 20 kB have changed, even though the modification date of the ...
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SFC errors - Failed to shred identity + others
SFC on Windows 7 Home Premium fails with the following error:
windows resource protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them
CBS.log reveals the following errors:
Failed ...
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Force delete a directory
I have a FAT32 SD card with a file on it, that, viewed in Windows the filename consists of a long string of nonsense.
Viewed in my Android phone's Linux terminal, ls -a shows nothing in the ...
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Chicken and Egg: Can't Restore System Point and Can't Run Scan-Disk
I have an awesomely evil hard-drive corruption of some sort going on with my Windows 7 installation. Whenever I schedule a scandisk and restart, Windows tells me that the hard-drive is corrupted and I ...
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High number of ethernet errors. Tool for testing the ethernet card?
have an Asus Sabertooth X79.
I often get corrupted files. I checked the RAM, but memtest finds no errors. To avoid the possibility of disk errors, I tried copying files to tmpfs.
If I copy from the ...
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External hard drive unplugged while running iTunes…Corrupted files
I have nearly 2TB of Movies and TV Shows copied to iTunes on an external hard drive. Last night, I was unplugging a cord behind my desk and I accidentally unplugged my HD. Well, when I plugged it back ...
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How to recover the contents of a corrupted file? [closed]
I have a JavaScript file that got corrupted after a system restart (Windows blue screen error). Whereas previously it contained some code I had written, now it's showing "null" in Notepad++ and ...
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Does copying/moving emails in Outlook (2003) from one PST to another corrupt the new PST file?
Someone at work in the IT department is insistent that "it's bad practice to copy/move emails from one .PST file in Outlook into another, and this generally leads to corruption of the new PST file.".
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GParted errors on MBR Disk, Claims it's GPT. (It's mistaken, but why?)
It's very tempting for me to go on a rant here about GParted and Linux, but I'll do my best to avoid it. :)
Question:
Why does GParted claim that my disk is corrupted and GPT, whereas the Disk ...
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Remove corrupted files
For some mysterious reason, my computer formatted my 'Data' drive while I was running Windows 7. I managed to recover a large amount of the data to another drive using Test Disk in Ubuntu. Because the ...
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Desktop icons corrupted in Windows 7, how do I fix this?
Booting up Windows 7 the other day, I was sent into a temporary profile.
When I logged out and logged into my normal profile, all the normal icons show but with a document icon superimposed on the ...
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Keyboard driver corrupted, cannot login. How do I fix without a reinstall?
Okay. So I have Windows XP Professional SP3.
Sometime ago the keyboard randomly stopped working all by itself. The num lock light is switched on at boot up - indicating it works but then it switches ...
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Corrupted database disk image [duplicate]
I have a corrupted sqlite .db file which cannot be opened in java because "the disk image is corrupted". I'd like a way to repair the database and recover as much data as I can, and make it openable. ...
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Does “Mount volume as removable medium” reduce the chances of data corruption with a TrueCrypt encrypted USB hard drive?
I have an external USB hard drive plugged in to my laptop some of the time. The external drive is whole drive encrypted using TrueCrypt.
I always check "Mount volume as removable medium" in the hope ...
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Word documents get spontaneously corrupted while editing in OS X
This has happened to me twice in the past two days:
I'm editing a document in OS X Microsoft Word 2011 (14.1.0), and the document's characters spontaneously turn into gibberish (not upon loading the ...
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Western Digital 1TB external hard drive could not be read
I have a problem with my external hard drive, I was copying a huge amount of data (approx 100 gigs) from it to another hard drive, suddenly an error popped up and told me that the operation could not ...
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Master File Table corrupt, any way to save data?
I've used search, but none of the results match my problem so I didn't have to ask separate question.
I've installed Windows 7 RTM recently and since then partitions located on one of my HDDs have ...
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PC won't boot from flash drive after computer hibernated (grub on hdd corrupt too)
I had 3 OS installed: Windows 7 , Fedora 17 and Mageia 2 in my Acer Aspire 4253 laptop.
I deleted the partition of Mageia and my grub got corrupted.
I didn't have an installation DVD of either Win7 ...
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How do I fix “Your profile could not be opened correctly” in Chrome on a Mac?
The full error message is "Your profile could not be opened correctly. Some features may be unavailable. Please check that the profile exists and you have permission to read and write its contents.
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File Possibly Corrupted
I have a question on another stackexchange site and it was mentioned that my file might be corrupt. Is there a way to verify this? I have access to mac/windows and the file will not open on either ...
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Large zip files content is corrupted when unziped using windows explore
We have a large zip file (25GB) containing mosty pdfs and png files. (about 150000 files)
When we unzip the file using windows explore some of the content is corrupted. Some png files shows content ...
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Is it possible that an SD card has 100% bad sectors?
I have an SD card which have been used in a photo camera for some months, and it's been working perfectly fine until today. It failed when we were just browsing pictures in the camera screen (so it ...
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Forcing a verbose fsck on reboot (Ubuntu)
I'd like to force a verbose fsck on reboot of my Ubuntu linux server, I can get fsck to run on reboot by creating a file /forcefsck in my root dir ...
Additionally, by adding a y into the contents of ...
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Chrome: “Your profile could not be loaded correctly” even after deleting “User Data” in Local App Data
I'm still receiving this popup from Chrome before it starts saying that my preferences could not be loaded. I've googled for the solutions, and everyone seems to think that deleting the "User Data" ...
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Corrupted HDD wont reach bios
first time here, so I'll crack right on. I'm not really a huge hardware guy, but a friend has passed me on a laptop that wont boot up. There are two answers to this problem I guess, ideally the end ...
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Is there a tool that can scan for corrupt PDFs on my computer?
I really like that there is a tool (ImageVerifier) that can scan through my photo collection and tell me about corrupt JPG and TIFF files. However, I also have a vast collection of image-based PDFs ...
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File Corruptions when using Vim on iMac
I'm experiencing some strange file corruptions when editing PHP files in VIM/iTerm.
This is not exclusive to these but the corruptions are slightly different in Nano. Same issues appear in the ...
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Downloaded files are missing, after moving a hard drive to a new box using Startup Repair
I recently took a hard drive from a Windows 7 HP laptop and installed it into an old Dell 745 Optiplex computer that I bought for cheap at a salvage store. I know it is not recommended, but I wanted ...
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How to restore Vista from a corrupted install of Xubuntu?
On my laptop, I've decided to get Xubuntu. During the process, my laptop overheated and shutdown during the installation process. As I turn it back on, it has GRUB, not allowing me to go on Xubuntu or ...
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Windows 7 Icons, Buttons, and Tabs corrupted…Professional 32-bit
The other day, about two or three ago, I was simply typing in a Microsoft Word document when my screen froze. After a few moments, it went black...I thought it was my vid hardware (dual nVidia 9800 ...
