Know How to Fix CRC Error while Transferring Pst File
Outlook is a very powerful email management application that could store and record so many business items like emails, notes, journals, calenders etc in a single personal storage table known as pst file. It is a very safe application but some time in some adverse condition, you may notice its abnormal functionality. You might would have noticed CRC error while transferring pst file from its original location to some other area may be to a different computer.
To understand the situation, lets consider a situation that you bought a new laptop and you want to transfer all your computer data in your new laptop. In due course of data transfer, you try to copy and transfer the MS Outlook pst file but the operation failed in between and error messages pop ups on the screen such as
“File file_path\file_name.pst could not be accessed. Data error. Cyclic redundancy check.”
Where, file_path and file_name refer to full path and name of Outlook PST file respectively.
AS the error message clear indicates, CRC error while transferring Pst File generally occurs due to location specific problems. It may that the target drive is infected or there could be problem with the root drive. The corruption the pst file which is to be transferred could also be one of the reasons behind this lethal issue.
In order to fix this issue, you need to tackle each of the causes one by one. You may follow the below mentioned steps:
- Step 1: Copy the pst file to NUL to make sure that it is not problematic.
- Step 2: Open the commnd prompt and visit the origional pst location. Then use the copy command to copy the file to NUL. If it copies successfully then there is no problem with it and you need to check the destination drive.
- Step3: Click start Run and run chkdsk command with ‘/F’ switch to check whether the origional drive is infected or not.
And last, if you notice that the problem is due to corrupted original pst file then you need to repair it before transferring. You can easily do so by scanning the entire pst file through inbox repair tool. With the help of its powerful scanning algorithm and programing logics, you can easily repair the corrupted pst file and fix CRC error while transferring Pst file forever.
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