im not talking about actual corruption, just the disk write error message that occurs when downloading steam games, usually i am able to just resume downloading a few times and it eventually downloads fine, so i dont think its an actual problem with the disk.
It might have just been file corruption after all, but if you go this route you have a chance of recovering instead of having NO drive. Months later after you have confirmed you don't need any of the data on it do a full disk wipe and try using it as a spare. Get a new drive, copy everything you need, put the old drive in a safe in case you forgot something. You'd need a power tool (like SpinWrite) to verify your drives and attempt to fix more "found" problems, but if your disk is on its way to the giant bit-bucket in the sky you don't have much time to play around with recovery tools.
This detects existing disk corruption caused by all those disk write errors but won't prevent new ones. (If you're on Linux its almost the same command). Originally posted by DarkCrystalMethod:Look up the chkdsk command for your version of Windows.
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