Ok, I got it working and didn't lose any of my data.

I removed the Target and recreated using the same .img file and it worked. YAY

I don't have another volume that is big enough to hold the .img file.

There was however 33GB of space left to create a new target on that disk and it worked like normal. No CRC error when I initialized it. I formatted and created a partition and it's taking data.

The disk is working fine and I can copy data to and from. I ran a chkdsk /r on the disk and it finished without any problems. The setup up is iSCSI target goes to an external hard drive attached to the server. The iSCSI initiator is on a different server and connects to the target but in Disk Manage...

I’ve been using the free version of Starwind for iSCSI and after several successful months of use, the drive shows up in Disk Management as needing to be initialized. I’m trying to initialize the drive and I get an error “Data error (cyclic redundancy check).” I noticed a bunch of these errors in th...