Very good news that you had it all backed up. Others encountering the
same problem might find the Unstoppable Copier useful:
http://www.roadkil.net/unstopcp.html
When I was travelling in South America I burned my digital photos to
CDs, and posted them back home, but still found that they had suffered
from a bit of scratching and a lot of images were not readable - the
same CRC error you had on your hard drive. But with the unstoppable
copier I salvaged most of them. I was impressed.
Incidentally, I don't have an ipod so I don't know if this is a really
obvious mistake that most people would never make, but some friends of
friends of mine had a computer stolen, and thought the loss was not too
great as they had all their photos on their ipod. But then somehow when
they got a new computer, they set it to synchronise the wrong way, and
it deleted all their photos from the ipod instead of saving them to the
computer.
Roger
Marc Lawrence wrote:
> Ewww. I've just been setting up Google's Picasa 2 as a stop-gap solution
> to managing my images, when all of a sudden it started locking up when I
> opened some specific images. Since I've not long started using it, my
> initial thought was "ARRRH! Picasa!" but, well, a check of the relevant
> images showed that the problem wasn't Picasa - nothing would open them.
> What's more, any attempt to move or copy them (or even delete them) got
> a "Cyclic Redundancy Check" data error. Eeek!
>
> So, I looked some more, and there seems to be a few images that way,
> scattered across a few directories, and some Googling seems to indicate
> hard disk problems and that it will "only get worse". I'm currently
> running a 'chkdsk /r'. After quite a few errors messages, scrolled up
> past the top of the screen, I'm up to "stage 4 of 5" at 43% at this
> point in time, and wondering what the result might be.
>
> Anyway, my first point is...well, it's not a point but a question: In
> the experience of others out there, is this going to "only get worse",
> and do you have any advice or suggestions (note, I am running Windows
> XP, and this box is a few years old now)?
>
> My second point is, I have my images backed up on two external hard
> disks, my laptop and my iPod (all but the scans on that last - I really
> just use the iPod as a transfer device between my laptop and PC, but
> leave the images on there while there's space). So, I haven't lost
> anything from this.
>
> If this begins to look ugly, it might be time for a new PC (or iMac if
> Peter gets his way), so I may have more questions later. So, thanks in
> advance for any advice.
>
> Cheers,
> Marc
> Noosa Heads, Oz
>
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