Files Corrupted During LAN Transfer

jitspoe

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Mar 20, 2002
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This is really frustrating. Whenever I copy a file over 100 megs from one computer to the next (just click-drag copies in explorer), there's about a 50% chance it will get corrupted. I'm having to make .SFV files for everything I copy over, then re-copy the files that failed the checksum. Sometimes I have to copy a file over 10 times before it works. The differences are very slight -- I did a file compare and there were only a couple bytes off here and there, but this shouldn't be happening at all. :(

Any ideas on what might be wrong? Bad cable? switch? network card? hard drive? Knowing my hardware, it's probably a combination of all four and some day soon a giant puff of black smoke will shoot out of the case and ALL the files will be corrupted, heh.
 

Platypus

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It sounds like it could be any or all of the above. Most likely a flaky cable, that's the easiest to try.
 

jitspoe

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Ok. It's the hard drive... or at least, that's part of the problem. I copied some large files then did a fc and they didn't match up. Ick. Guess it's time to get a new HD.