Tequila launcher creating bad sectors on my drive

[cristobal03]

Not sure if this is the right place to put this, and also not sure if anyone else is experiencing it, but twice in the past week I've had to do drive repair because of the launcher. The latest issue:

 

./homecoming/bin.pigg: Corrupt pig file detected

Read failed for file: bin/clientmessages-en.bin

-1

 

Your data might be corrupt, please run the patcher and try again.

 

Very similar error to what happened earlier in the week (it was a different .pigg that time). Ran a search on the forum and didn't see anything. I don't think it's the drive itself; nothing else gets in this state, and the bad sectors/blocks are all specific to tequila.

 

Thoughts?

[The Fifth Horseman]

No, that message neither proves nor implies that your hard drive has bad sectors.

 

Post your hard drive's SMART statistics (you can get them with tools like CrystalDiskInfo).

[cristobal03]

Thanks for the response. Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that error message indicated the bad sectors. It is the application error I receive right before I start getting drive errors. I know I have bad sectors because of the chkdsk and ntfsfix reports that I run after getting a launcher application error, both of which identify tequila files as having the bad blocks. Maybe I should have mentioned I'm an IT professional?

 

My main question is, has anyone else encountered drive problems as a result of using tequila, and if so, is there any similarity to the .pigg corruption error I posted? It would look like Homecoming unable to launch even after reloading the launcher followed by inability to read certain files, such as the tequila log.

 

If no one else is having that problem, then I'll assume it isn't tequila and troubleshoot my HW in the traditional way. Thanks again!

[goblinite]

I've seen it once on my, but reverifying the files solved the issue. 

May be the file was written to a bad sector or a sector went bad after write.  I'll go with you knowing what to do if the reverify doesn't work. 

[cristobal03]

I have another drive handy, so I installed on that. Hopefully all goes well. I'm going to keep an eye on it for a couple of weeks to see if there's any degradation, but maybe it was just a nutty coincidence.

[WanderingAries]

There's no conceivable way that the game (or any similar app) is going to cause actual damage to the drive. Fragmentation, sure, but not bad sectors. That's at the physical level and normally handled by the drive itself as it has reserve sectors for that. That SAID, move anything off that drive NOW that you don't want to risk losing. You MIGHT be able to force the drive to reallocate the damaged sectors by doing a low level format (zero it out), but the risk is always there. As mentioned before, a shot of your crystal disk report would be helpful if you wish to have a 2nd opinion on the drive's health.

 

crystaldiskinfo