It is recommended to attach great importance to this error, for it usually indicates that there might be something wrong with the disk or data. You may get this error during accessing files on hard drive or external disks. What is a CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) error? A CRC error is an error-detecting code / data verification method used for data verification. I need your suggestions to either get the error fixed or retrieve files to a secure place.
Does that mean the disk has bad sectors? It is acceptable to replace it with a new one, and yet I do not want to lose all files on the hard drive. However, when I click cancelled it, another error appeared – data error (cyclic redundancy check). It prompts the partition is not accessible and I need to format it before I can use it. Everything went well until recently I started to get errors when try to open one of the partitions. There two disks in the laptop: a 256GB SSD for Windows 10 and a 1TB hard disk to store files. 'Hi, the internal hard drive of my laptop gets the CRC error. What does data error cyclic redundancy check (CRC) mean?