Cyclic Redundancy Check error when copying PST to another Location

An Outlook user may need to copy Outlook.pst file form one location to another in order to access the emails, notes, etc. stored in the PST file to another location. Consider a scenario depicting the need for copying the PST file from one location to another. You purchased a new computer and configured Outlook in it. Now, you want to access all your old emails including attachments, images, notes, etc. with the new profile created on your new computer. To do that you copy the PST file from old computer to paste into the new computer. However, when you are copying the PST file from old computer, you get the following error message:

“Data error (cyclic Redundancy Check)”

Reason

Following are the reasons for the aforementioned error:

• The Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) error occurs when the storage media from where you are copying the PST file has bad sectors.

• Another reason for CRC error can be the damage of the PST file that your are copying to place at another location.

• Problem can also be occurred due to presence of bad sectors on the target storage area.

Solution

Consider following solutions to successfully copy the PST file to target location:

• Copy the PST file to another location. If the problem has been occurring due to problem in the target storage area, the issue will be automatically resolved.

• If the problem still pursue then check the storage media for finding and fixing possible errors. Execute following steps to check the storage media for errors:

1. Explore My Computer.

2. Right-click the storage media and select the Properties option. A dialog box opens.

3. Select the Tools tab.

4. Click the Check Now button in the Error-checking section.

5. Select required options.

6. Click the Start button.

Computer starts checking the storage media for finding and resolving possible errors.

• If you still face the problem in copying PST file to another location then it means the PST file is damaged. In that scenario, you need to repair the damaged PST file.

You can recover mails from the damaged PST file using third-party PST recovery software, which you can easily find over Internet. Kernel for Outlook – PST Fix is one of the five-star rated software, which has been developed to help you repair the damaged PST file and recover mails from it. The software supports all versions of MS Outlook and recovers all data including emails, deleted items, attachments (whether small or large), images, notes, contacts, etc. in the same format as they were before deletion.

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