read operations

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Discussions tagged with 'read operations' on WindowsForum.com focus on low-level volume reading in Windows, particularly using CreateFile and ReadFile APIs. A recurring theme is CRC errors encountered when reading from snapshot volumes, which raises questions about NTFS bad sector handling. Users explore whether reading at the volume level bypasses OS-level error correction that normally hides bad sectors during file-level access. The tag covers troubleshooting of read failures, understanding of Windows storage stack behavior, and the interaction between hardware error handling and software read operations.
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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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