What does the "CRC Failed" error mean?

[MatrixmaN]

Do ya know?

Sometimes my zips get that.

[muno]

It means that the cyclic redundancy check of the file has failed. Meaning, the file is not an exact copy of the original, meaning a tcp packet has been corrupted during the transfer, meaning entire file/some files inside are unusable.
-M

[MatrixmaN]

And there's no way to fix that?

The files ran fine awhile ago, now they have that Cylic Thingy and I can't access some backed up stuff.

No Scandisk for files I assume?

[jmichna]

Originally posted by MatrixmaN
And there's no way to fix that?....

Usually you see CRC errors in modem downloads/uploads... a good error-correcting modem is supposed to detect CRC errors and re-send the data.

Try re-downloading the file.

If this is occuring when you are zipping files, then something else must be going on... maybe a mildly corrupted zip program file is causing errors?

[muno]

Local files might get corrupted because you move them around alot on a bad fs (eg. fat32), or you've overclocked your processor and the ide channel can't handle it anymore.
-M