CRC Errors a sign of a dying hard drive?

So i've got this 7-year old system with a samsung hard drive. When I was moving files to another computer through the network to backup, it threw me some CRC errors for some files.

I'm just wondering if this is a sign that the hard drive is failing in terms of integrity? Maybe bad sectors or such which is why it is giving me these errors. Any other causes?

Could be a problem with your NIC or RAM.

I'm doing a memtest right now on the system. I did a reformat and fresh reinstall of windows and encountered another problem. Adobe reader doesn't seem to want to open. Just crashes everytime I try to open it. Any ideas on this one? Something about InPageError so it could be ram or the hard disk.

When you reformatted the drive you should have gotten a readout of whether or not any bad sectors were found which should give you an idea of the condition its in.

Reinstall Adobe and see if that solves that problem.

If not a hard drive problem then you're back to memory.

my HD is dieing and it will make barking noise when i got pressure it such as opening alot of windows at once

CRC errors are typically the result of a bad IDE cable. Make you sure you dont use a round cable but a square one.

Originally Posted by Pavel

CRC errors are typically the result of a bad IDE cable. Make you sure you dont use a round cable but a square one.

but what if it's SATA? I got the same problem with a semi new 250gb SATA drive. Course my CRC prblems are unrar'ing files..throws a corrupt error message related to crc