A CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) is a calculated value across a collection
of bits.  It's routinely used in some communications protocols to detect
whether data has become corrupted in transit.

  Windows Explorer, though, has no reason to do this kind of check on the
*contents* of a file.  It might, however, perform this kind of check on some
of the data structures which make up the file system, and THAT strongly
suggests that you should perform a CHKDSK (exact procedure depends on
Windows version) before attempting to move/modify any files on this drive.

David Gillett


On 6 May 2004 at 16:46, Mona Stenzel wrote:

> I have a file that I need to delete. It is part of "The Sims" game, an object I downloaded that is corrupt and causing a problem. When I locate it in Windows Explorer and try to delete it or move it I get an error message:
> cannot delete/move...... data error (cyclic redundancy check).
>
> Is there any way to get rid of this file?
>
> Thank you for any help you can give me.
>
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