file level

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Discussions tagged with 'file level' on WindowsForum.com focus on how Windows and NTFS handle data integrity and error recovery when reading from storage volumes. A recurring theme is the distinction between volume-level and file-level operations, particularly regarding bad sector handling. Users report CRC errors when reading directly from a volume using APIs like CreateFile and ReadFile, and question whether NTFS's bad sector remapping applies only to file-level reads and writes. The tag covers topics such as NTFS error correction, volume snapshot access, and the behavior of storage drivers when bypassing the file system layer.
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    Windows 8.1 CRC error reading volume.

    I am using CreateFile to open a snapshot volume, and ReadFile to read from it. On one system I had an attempt to read 1 mb fail with a CRC error. As I understand it, the drive should be doing its own bad sector mapping, but apparently it's not. I know that NTFS has bad sector handling, does...
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