Please someone help me, I don't know if I put this in the right forum, I have looked on the other forums for cyclic redundancy check but all that comes up is cd or dvd's but me problem is different. My problem is with my thumb drive, the first time that I used it was fine then I safely removed it from my computer. The second time I used it, it always comes up with cyclic redundancy check from text documents to pics to videos. I can not put anything on my thumb drive so I just reformated it hoping that would fix the problem. It worked for the first time then the second time it did the cyclic redundancy check thing again so my question is what can I do to fix this? I really don't feel like going out and buying another thumb drive.
CRC means it's failing the checksum of the files. For a thumb drive I can only think of noise transfering data to it or back. The format might have had noise to so it may not have cleaned it. Could be it went bad. I assume it's a USB 2 device and you not trying to use it on a USB 1 connector. Got a make and exact model number? What OS you running including service packs if any? I still believe in only pluging connectors in or out with the power off. The power lines to the device are still active and can be shorted out. Can you do an error check of the drive? I don't have one so I don't know if you can error check a USB drive. The drivers for the drive may have gone bad so you may need to uninstall them and let the OS rebuild them. Won't know that without the make and model number.
My schools computer says it will run faster in a usb 2, so I figure that it is running in a usb 1.1 but my home computer runs the usb 2 and it still comes up with the same problem and for the thumb drive it is a sandisk cruzer mini 4 g.b. model SDCZ2-128 and it is running on a windows xp service pack 2 for school and home computers. I am pretty sure that you can do a error check, but at this time because I am at school, I don't have the right priveleges for it, but as soon as I get home I will try and do it and if that doesn't work I will update the driver to see if that works and if that doesn't work I will unistall it and let the os rebuild it see if that works like you said.
Does the usb drive work on any other computers? It could be a driver or the drive may have died. Their website has a couple of registry edits you do to let windows rediscover the drive and install it. As I recall you have to blow away 2 entries.
I went home and tried to mess around with it and nothing worked so I formated it and made a new folder in it (figuring why not) and put some files in it and disconnected it and reconnected it and tried to put one more file in it figureing it will come up with that message again and it didn't, so I started to mess around with it (just figuring that it was a one time thing), but that message has not come up again, so I have 100% no idea what I did (except put a new folder in) to make it work.
