Data on disk corrupted - Maybe you have two copies running?

[Sarah]

Does anyone know what this error could mean? (Data on disk corrupted - maybe you have two copies running?) I've done a google search and can't find anything.

I've been using Bittorrent for a few weeks now without any trouble. Suddenly, every file I try to download goes fine until it's about 20% completed, and then gives me this error message and puts the file in the finished section. if I try to restart the download, it queues up to the point where it stopped and then gives the error again. I've tried about 5 different downloads, all the same thing. I've uninstalled and reinstalled Bittorrent, and nothing changes.

Any ideas? Thank you,
Sarah

[Vladd44]

What client did you try?

try an alternate one if you have only tried one.

For a list, check out this link http://www.vladd44.com/torrent/clients.php

Also, have u scanned ur hd for errors?

One last thing, what brand hard drive?

[Sarah]

The client I use is the official Bittorrent client, version 4.0.2 (I've also tried 4.1.2 which is beta). I'll try another one though. I'll also scan for errors tonight (and maybe try downloading to the other drive to see if that corrects the problem). I think it's a Western Digital hard drive, I just bought and installed it a few months ago. Tomorrow, I'll update.

[Fateist]

This is probably a problem with your hard-drive, but don't worry, its not permanent I suggest that you run checkdisk to look for errors.

Also, did you try to open the file or access it in any way while the torrent is downloading? I'm just curious.

[Sarah]

Um, so I wrote a response but I guess I never posted it. I did a scan for errors and it came up with several, however, I let it run overnight and when I woke up the screen was on the desktop so I didn't have a log to look at. I did a defrag and when I rebooted, the computer automatically initiated a scan for errors again.

However, when I tried to play the OGM files after all of this, they were severely corrupted - skipping wildly, and basically unplayable. I tried moving the files to the other drive, even checking a few of the AVIs in Gspot, but all of the video files I have recently downloaded were destroyed. I freaked out a little about the rest of the data on the drive, but it seems that everything else is fine. I deleted all of the files, scanned for errors, and defragmented again (which, btw, was the most awesome defrag I've ever seen - one solid blue bar!) and I'm trying to download the video files again. It won't be done until tomorrow so I won't know until then whether it works (although so far, the file I'm downloading hasn't given me the original error message, and it's 50% done! wooo!)

I'm a bit concerned that a new, empty harddrive would be giving me problems when I've had the other drive for much longer and have completely saturated the drive with data and have so far never had a problem with it. Of course, I've never put a 7 GB file on a drive before, so that probably has something to do with it. Thank you for your help, everyone, and I'll keep an eye on thsi thread to see if anyone has any more suggestions.

Sarah

[Sarah]

**Change of Subject* Ok, I'm checking out the files on my computer, and it looks like all of the music and video files that have recently been added to the drive are scrambled. The songs all skip and some of them play clips from songs in other folders. Most of my digital pictures are intact, but a few of them are gone as well (there's a chunk for example that has the names changed - wtf!) and some of our digital home videos are also ruined. So far, it looks like older files are undamaged, but it will take awhile to sort through all of the stuff on the drive. I'm pretty devastated about this - I have to sort through everything and back up the important stuff, and I'm terrified to ever checkdisk or defrag again.

So, I have a few questions - is there any way to repair damaged JPGs and AVIs? My guess is no.

Should I contact the manufacturer of this drive and make them replace it? I don't know how the drive got errors, or how all of my files got scrambled, but I'm pretty pissed about it.

Did I do something to make this happen? I'm not a computer expert, but I'm pretty damn familiar with how to work a computer and I've never seen anything like this. What can I do to prevent anything like this in the future?

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The best thing you can EVER do with important files is back them up regularly, no matter what brand of HD you get, problems can and usually do occur sooner or later, the best advise i would give is:

1. Run the defrag regularly
2. Error check regularly
3. Make sure u are running a good fire wall
4. Make sure u are running fully up to date anti virus
5. Run a good adware/spyware remover
6. Make regular back ups of important files

i generally over do it and back up to cd rom & a spare external HD, but then i have rarely had a problem so i guess my policy is sound.

As far as repairing the files you have got scrambled, i would suspect this is unlikely, the best bet is to learn a lesson, move on and backup all important files today, dont delay!!!

Good luck.

[Vladd44]

Should I contact the manufacturer of this drive and make them replace it? I don't know how the drive got errors, or how all of my files got scrambled, but I'm pretty pissed about it.

YES, YES, and YES.

is there any way to repair damaged JPGs and AVIs? My guess is no.

Hate to be the one to break it to you, but your guess was right.

Its why a good backup routine is so vital for the things you want to keep.

[Fateist]

There is a hard drive utility that I have that checks your hard drive's SMART information and will tell you if your hard drive is experiencing any mechanical problems. I suggest you download it and get familiar with it. I use it regularly, like once every now and then to see if I'm having errors with my drive.

http://www.passmark.com/products/diskcheckup.htm

It will not tell you about data corruption, as SMART is feature embedded in modern drives in the form of a chip on the main hard drive's circuit. I have never had a problem with any of my drives, but after I bought my last one, I instantly checked it for errors, and then every now and then after that... In fact, I'm gonna use it now...

My drives seem to be functioning properly. My guess is that your hard drive's head was somehow damaged probably due to exessive shock and was incorrectly reading data of the drive. It is a must to take care of something like a hard drive while you are bringing it home from the place of purchase for example. It could also be a precision error which was caused at the production plant.

I'm terrified to ever checkdisk or defrag again.

On the contrary, those are some of the best tools that you can use. Checkdisk is a must to locate data corruption on your drive and take care of it to stop it from spreading. It will also locate sectors on your drive that are damaged and will prevent them from being written to so you don't get corrupt data. Defragmenter will help you keep your computer up to speed and it is good to do it every month or so.

In the end, if you are not willing to waste time, you should probably just contact the manufacturer and ask about the problem, and if a replacement is necessary, go ahead. As for the future, make sure you have a backup routine in place.

Best of luck.

[Sarah]

To everyone who replied - Thank you. I backed up all of my important pictures (really all that was important) and checked the disk and defragmented again. Nothing else got scrambled and it looks like everything is back to normal. I guess it was just some freak thing! I won't really know until I write enough information on the disk to where it would get to the place that it had the error. I'm going to see if I can find the receipt for the drive and contact the manufacturer - a brand new drive shouldn't scramble data like that!

[Guest]

I had the same error "maybe you have two copies running" and there is nothing wrong with my hard drive, I checked my running processes and, in fact, I had to "btdownloadheadless.exe" processes running, the strange thing is that when I went to sleep everything was ok, then 3 hours after that another btdownloadheadless.exe started automatically, Any thoughts?

[Guest]

I actually found out what the problem was. My hard drive was "corrupted" - Well, sort of. See, the diagnostics tool that came with my hard drive was showing errors on the drive, but when I tried to repair them it said there was an error. My drive was under warranty, so I had Western Digital send me a new one. The brand new drive also showed errors with the diagnostic tool. I finally got someone on the phone at WD that knew what was going on - my BIOS was outdated, and could not recognize a drive larger than about 132 GB. WINDOWS *said* it could, but the BIOS could not. So, when Windows would write on the disc past 132 GB, the data would scramble, and BitTorrent would no longer be able to write to the disk.

I had to update the bios, scan the disk for errors, and Voila! The diagnostic came back clean. I felt really stupid returning a disk to WD that wasn't actually corrupt... But I'm sure that it's pretty rare for a problem like mine to occur. I've since not had any problems with data on my drive (or with Bit torrent, for that matter).

[Aughraseye]

The above post was from me, but I guess I'm not signed in. *shrug*

[KM]

I finally got someone on the phone at WD that knew what was going on

you found someone on a support line that actually knew what they were talking about? was it the tooth fairy?