Download Restarted?

[DWk]

well i was downloading a verified and had 30 megs already....then after a reboot it just reset....0kb again

ideas any1?
thx

[Switeck]

Run a scandisk -- you probably have 30+ MB of bad sectors or lost allocation units on your hard drive/s.

[~FunK_mOb~]

happened to me too with a verified a while ago.Didn't pay to much attention to it because I had the thing downloaded again in no time.

But what's all that about bad sectors or lost allocation units on the hard-drive?

[camille]

Happened to me before and neglected. I redownload the file.

[Switeck]

Originally posted by ~FunK_mOb~@15 December 2003 - 01:46
But what's all that about bad sectors or lost allocation units on the hard-drive?

If you lose part of a download, the hard drive probably still has that space marked as 'used' -- ESPECIALLY if it failed due to a crash/power outage.

Scandisk can recover from that kind of damage by finding unallocated/unassociated pieces of files and recreates them as something.dat files in the root dir of the drive they're on.

[DrSpud]

I think that it just restarted because of the way Kazaa handles multiple groups, not because of crashing (in which case the download would have been deleted).

This post I just made in another similar topic has the answer.