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Drive can't find sector requested
Name: Erik Rosenbluh Date: November 7, 2006 at 11:46:49 Pacific OS: Win XP SP2 CPU/Ram: Dual Xeon 3gig ram
Comment:
This is strange, when trying to play some video files with Windows Media, I get the following message: "the drive cannot find the sector requested" But if I open the file with a different program, it plays fine. Any ideas what would cause this?
Name: mattie Date: November 7, 2006 at 12:02:52 Pacific
Reply:
copy the file to another location to check the drive integrity. some video player play fragments of video files while other do a quick scan of the file first (like wmp). run scandisk with surface scan, backup important data and face the possibility of a dying hard drive.
Today's subliminal thought is: 'Calm down ... it's only ones and zeros.'
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Response Number 2
Name: Erik Rosenbluh Date: November 10, 2006 at 03:46:43 Pacific
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I copied a file to a different drive and it worked. This is a relatively new drive. I tried running error checking and I got the message: "Windows was unable to complete the task" The drive is in an external USB2 enclosure. Could the enclosure be going bad instead of the drive?
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