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This thread steps through the process pretty well,<br />
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<a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Cyclic-Redundancy-Check-Error" rel="ugc">http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Cyclic-Redundancy-Check-Error</a>
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This thread steps through the process pretty well,

http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Cyclic-Redundancy-Check-Error [http://www.wikihow.com/Fix-a-Cyclic-Redundancy-Check-Error]

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If you are in a Windows environment you can try and run &quot;chkdsk /r&quot; on the drive and see if that would correct any errors. Sometimes it can make a difference; it even cleared a SMART error once for me and the drive lasted a good long while after that.<br />
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But yes, WD's LifeGuard diagnostic is definitely a good plan as well.
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If you are in a Windows environment you can try and run "chkdsk /r" on the drive and see if that would correct any errors. Sometimes it can make a difference; it even cleared a SMART error once for me and the drive lasted a good long while after that.

But yes, WD's LifeGuard diagnostic is definitely a good plan as well.

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Ran the diags and it failed due to too many error sectors
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Ran the diags and it failed due to too many error sectors

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Drive is a WDC 3200BEVT 320 gb drive.<br />
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I did a quick format on it and it worked but Acronis wouldn't let me use it as the target of &nbsp;a clone operation.<br />
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I started a full format on it but I aborted it 52% after about 3 hours.<br />
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Now it comes back and says that it needs to be initialized but when I try to initialize it, I get a cyclic redundancy check error. Can this be corrected?
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Drive is a WDC 3200BEVT 320 gb drive.

I did a quick format on it and it worked but Acronis wouldn't let me use it as the target of  a clone operation.

I started a full format on it but I aborted it 52% after about 3 hours.

Now it comes back and says that it needs to be initialized but when I try to initialize it, I get a cyclic redundancy check error. Can this be corrected?

WD 320 gb Drive failing to be formatted

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