title: utorrent Hash: element not found
body: <p><em><strong>Problem:</em></strong></p>
  
  <p>I keep getting <strong><em>Hash: Element not found errors.</em></strong></p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><em><strong>Technical Details:</em></strong></p>
    
    <ul>
    <li>uTorrent 3.2.3 (latest as of this writing)
    <ul>
    <li>Running about 30 Torrents (all downloading)</li>
    </ul></li>
    <li>Win 7 64 bit</li>
    <li>Dell N5050 :sigh:</li>
    </ul>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p><em><strong>Symptoms:</em></strong></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Force recheck is disabled (sometimes)</li>
  <li>When I resume the torrent, as it halts when this happens, it proceeds smoothly until the next <strong><em>Hash: Element not found</em></strong> error
  <ul>
  <li>It doesn't happen at a particular %age</li>
  </ul></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><em><strong>Solutions Attempted:</em></strong></p>
  
  <p>Searched online a lot to find a few below</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><strong>Re-download elsewhere.</strong> Set download folder and change it and re-download the torrent. <strong><em>NO! DOESN'T WORK!</em></strong> and its FRUSTRATING that I'd to DELETE my 90% downloaded torrent!!</li>
  <li><strong>Good 'ol thump</strong>. Swear at the screen making heavy fist thumps and hand gestures. Surprisingly, this doesn't work!</li>
  <li><strong>Force recheck.</strong> Doesn't help and sometimes not available.</li>
  <li><em><strong>Disk I/O errors.</em></strong> Came across an article which said this might due to Disk I/O errors.
  <ul>
  <li>Realized I was using a <strong>DELL</strong> laptop</li>
  <li>Realized HDD had failed on a previous DELL</li>
  <li>Tried <strong><em>Solution #2</em></strong> again. Same results.</li>
  <li>Seemed like the most likely explanation to the problem, hence read articles about HDD checking and downloaded a few suggested softwares to check HDD Health</li>
  <li>Interestingly, the HDD was a OK</li>
  </ul></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>None of these worked!</p>