I was downloading a 200 GB torrent file and it got to about 90% the system crashed.
Turns out that there was a bad sector on the HDD and it had tried to write the file over it.
It has essentially made the whole file corrupt. I can't copy the file anywhere because I end up with a 'disk read error'
The torrent program shows that the data is still there and loads the torrent back to around 90% (where it crashed) but since everything else has to read the file as whole it cant be moved, copied or read by anything else.
Is there some way to break the file up so I can take out the corrupt part and let it continue downloading?
I am on shitty internet and it took almost a week to get to 90%
Have you tried turning your computer off and resting it sir?
Grayson Sanders
yes
Leo Rogers
don't think anyone can help you. there are programs that can break the file up but the program needs to be able to read the file... lol
Chase Lee
>a week lol
Levi Kelly
What are you torrenting that's 200 GB? WTF
Brody Reyes
Not in windows. Also, replace the hard drive.
Install gentoo.
Adrian Brooks
CP probably
Ryder Clark
this and this wtf are u downloading a 200 gig file via torrent for a fking week nigga
Thomas Butler
Here's how to fix it: You need a program that can copy the file and ignore unreadable parts, but leave the spacing of the bad data intact. Once you copy the file and it's readable+writable, any DECENT torrent program should be able to redownload the bad chunk.
That's all there is folks, torrents were made to deal with this, but they depend on the file acting like a file - that is, readable and writable!
Evan Parker
Use unlocker and move it
Lincoln Green
Just delete it and download it again. Make sure they're trusted
Oliver Rogers
PS2 romset
Jaxson Russell
The entire series of Hercules legendary adventures
Jose Thompson
Jesus dude get compressed files
Jaxson Young
I'm not familiar with networking (reply if you are) but I'm sure if you used another computer and had them directly linked and both running the same torrent and torrent client you should be able to transfer the file as a downloading torrent. That would mean that the bottleneck is your network card speed and not the internet speed.
Evan Ortiz
I recently had a similar issue with an sd card. a file got corrupted by an interrupted data transfer and they only way I could make a copy was by creating an image of the whole card and then running a file recovery program over it to salvage what it could. however, i'm don't believe this would work the same for you, as you're trying to recover a file that is corrupted in and of itself. what format is this file?
Brody Phillips
I like the sound of this. I have another PC with ethernet
Thomas Myers
.img
Justin Campbell
torrents only work over the internet
Gabriel Phillips
reply was meant to be for torrents only work over the internet
Parker Ortiz
did that error occur just when you were trying to load the file up in some program or when you were actually running it?
Sounds like you should. Get better internet. And Download 200gb in like
Jackson Turner
so apparently .img files are made up of sectors of size x, where x would be however the ps2 disk sectors were formatted. I suppose you might be able to find where the file begins and copy only how many whole x-sized regions fit into the difference between the beginning address and that corrupted region, but there obviously might be an issue with this if not contiguously stored, or maybe the OS would handle that.
if you managed to get all that you could, you might be able to get torrent to treat it as an incomplete download.
Kayden Adams
There's a little toggle switch inside the drive. Undo the six screws, sometimes seven, and flip the switch from oneside of the disc to the other. Make sure to give the disk a spin too. Close it back up, and Chuck it into the ocean. HERCULES!!