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WinRAR extraction problem: I/O

PoLPoT1000 -  
 Zendr -
Hello, I’m writing to ask if you’re able to help me.
Let me explain, I have a small problem, I want to extract 700 MB parts of a game from WinRAR, the extraction starts, and not even a minute in, the PC freezes, and the hard drive makes a strange noise; after about two minutes, the extraction stops and shows me the following message: "unable to satisfy the request due to a device I/O error"
I should note that it’s a laptop that I own, and I can’t access my hard drive as easily as with a desktop PC. And I don’t know what to do, it worries me a lot, does that mean the HDD is going to give up soon?

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    Skeletyon Posted messages 1622 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   157
     
    Hello,

    From what you say and what I understand, I would say that you have a problem at the level of your IO (input/output).

    Do you encounter this problem with these only files or with others?

    I’ve never seen WinRAR crash, but perhaps you should install the latest version if you haven’t already.
    --
    HF & GL
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  2. PoLPoT1000
     
    So yes, I have the latest version of WinRAR, and it happens with large files. For example, I even tried moving all these files to my other hard drive, but the transfer stopped partway through...
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  3. Skeletyon Posted messages 1622 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   157
     
    So large files are troublesome...?
    On a DDE is it possible to try?

    Otherwise you should test your HDD if it's not defective.
    You can type in the command line: CHKDSK C:\ (or C is the letter of your system disk).

    More fully you have a live Linux that tests your HDD thoroughly as well (Ubuntu to name just it ^^)

    Did you have a message for canceling the copy or were you sent into the wedges without explanations? D
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    HF & GL
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  4. PoLPoT1000
     
    I don’t have a DDE (I just ordered one because my HDD is really worrying me).

    I tried CHKDSK, which didn’t crash and told me there were no errors, and I also used HD Tune to look closer; during the test, the HDD made the same noise as when I was trying to extract the parts.

    I’m going to try Ubuntu, and I’ll keep you posted.

    For the copy, it threw me into trouble without explanations.
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  6. Skeletyon Posted messages 1622 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   157
     
    Is your WinRAR file "split" into several parts?

    Perhaps some information was copied incorrectly during the splitting and WinRAR simply cannot perform its task?

    You told me earlier that large files do not copy. Does this apply under WinRAR or even for videos/files? What sizes do these files have?

    -- HF & GL
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  7. PoLPoT1000
     
    Yes, it is segmented into several parts, 9 in total, 8 of 700MB and 1 of 550MB, and when I start the extraction it stops after two minutes and displays the aforementioned message.

    I just copied a movie to my other hard drive and it works. It’s strange. And yesterday I also downloaded parts of a game (sorry to mention it) that I couldn’t extract, WinRAR reported the same problem.

    So, it’s confined to the extraction with WinRAR, but copying other types of files works fine.

    I tried to decompress with 7-zip, but the same result.
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  8. Skeletyon Posted messages 1622 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   157
     
    It reassures me that you must have a corrupted archive and that, as a result, extraction is impossible.

    It's like a stone missing from a building, it's not huge but it makes everything collapse.

    A simple way to check would be to extract each archive one by one to see which one is faulty. And not “extract everything” or “extract here.”

    Question probably stupid: is your DD really NTFS and not FAT32?
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    HF & GL
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  9. PoLPoT1000
     
    I’m going to try that, it’s surely the first one that’s defective. But then why did everything crash when I tried to copy the archive to the other hard drive?

    And yesterday, the other archives also crashed during extraction, it crashed right at the very start of the extraction, just like with my parts this afternoon, so it’s strange!

    My hard drive is definitely in NTFS.
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  10. Zendr
     
    Personally, the only thing that was crashing my WinRAR, in the same way as you, was the presence of a DVD in my drive :/

    And no, I don’t know why but bizarrely, WinRAR is working again :p
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