files corrupted due to an I/O error

straightedgeb · 01-28-2008, 07:48 PM

hey guys this is the problem---

I've got a western digital 500 gb external. this harddrive has about 105 gigs of straight up music in mp3/aac format (itunes), 30gigs of video in wma, and 30gigs of various files I acquired from a friend of mainly ebooks and software.

I deleted some files from my desktop harddrive, but I had second thoughts about permanently deleting them, so I just copied and pasted them to the harddrive directly from the recycle bin rather than restoring them to the harddrive. there were about 10gigs, and they all corrupted in the transfer. I was able to get rid of almost every file using the checkdisk in my system but the remaining files (about 50mb) are still corrupt and in being corrupt for whatever reason are now making it where I can't access my music. when i try to delete these files I get a message saying the error is due to the file being unreadable due to an I/O error.

how can I go about removing these remaining files??

**Deleted090308** · 01-29-2008, 05:36 AM

Hi, welcome to TSF.

The I/O error means bad communication between the computer and the HDD.
Try another USB (or Firewire) cable.
Have a look in Device manager. Any yellow or red "marks"?
If that doesn't help - mount the drive inside a desktop PC (after you've taken it out of the enclosure, of course).
Just ask if you need help with mounting the drive.

01-28-2008, 07:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
straightedgeb Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 1 OS: vista home premium	files corrupted due to an I/O error hey guys this is the problem--- I've got a western digital 500 gb external. this harddrive has about 105 gigs of straight up music in mp3/aac format (itunes), 30gigs of video in wma, and 30gigs of various files I acquired from a friend of mainly ebooks and software. I deleted some files from my desktop harddrive, but I had second thoughts about permanently deleting them, so I just copied and pasted them to the harddrive directly from the recycle bin rather than restoring them to the harddrive. there were about 10gigs, and they all corrupted in the transfer. I was able to get rid of almost every file using the checkdisk in my system but the remaining files (about 50mb) are still corrupt and in being corrupt for whatever reason are now making it where I can't access my music. when i try to delete these files I get a message saying the error is due to the file being unreadable due to an I/O error. how can I go about removing these remaining files??

01-29-2008, 05:36 AM	#2 (permalink)
Deleted090308 Not... Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 22,277 OS: Xp	Re: files corrupted due to an I/O error Hi, welcome to TSF. The I/O error means bad communication between the computer and the HDD. Try another USB (or Firewire) cable. Have a look in Device manager. Any yellow or red "marks"? If that doesn't help - mount the drive inside a desktop PC (after you've taken it out of the enclosure, of course). Just ask if you need help with mounting the drive.