<p>I just wanted to install bitcoin-qt on another machine (all others are working fine) but I cannot seem to retrieve the block chain using bitcoin-qt 0.8.6-beta (as downloaded from <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.6/bitcoin-0.8.6-win32-setup.exe/download" rel="nofollow">http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.6/bitcoin-0.8.6-win32-setup.exe/download</a>). </p>

<p>I'm running bitcoin-qt (started as as administrator) on Windows 8 using a 3G data connection. After downloading a few thousand blocks the software keeps on quitting with the error "failed to read block". When I restart the software it fetches another thounsand blocks and quits with the same error soon. </p>

<p>Even a full reinstall (I additionally deleted the whole data directory in %APPDATA\Bitcoin) doesn's seem to help. Starting bitcoin-qt with "-reindex" didn't help either. I checked the hd-drive for errors but didn't find any. </p>

<p>What am I dong wrong?</p>

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2014-01-11T18:07:26.473Z
As *administrator*?? Why do people do that?
Greg Hewgill
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2014-01-12T09:23:32.120Z
Usually I'm not doing this. I just wanted to prevent answers pointing out that rights problems could be the reason for this behaviour.
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bitcoin-qt keeps on quitting with "failed to read block"
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# bitcoin-qt keeps on quitting with "failed to read block"

(Asked by: username_0 on 2014-01-11)

I just wanted to install bitcoin-qt on another machine (all others are working fine) but I cannot seem to retrieve the block chain using bitcoin-qt 0.8.6-beta (as downloaded from <http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.6/bitcoin-0.8.6-win32-setup.exe/download>).

I'm running bitcoin-qt (started as as administrator) on Windows 8 using a 3G data connection. After downloading a few thousand blocks the software keeps on quitting with the error "failed to read block". When I restart the software it fetches another thounsand blocks and quits with the same error soon.

Even a full reinstall (I additionally deleted the whole data directory in %APPDATA\Bitcoin) doesn's seem to help. Starting bitcoin-qt with "-reindex" didn't help either. I checked the hd-drive for errors but didn't find any.

What am I dong wrong?

**Tags:** blockchain, bitcoin-core, client

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: As *administrator*?? Why do people do that?  
> **username_0**: Usually I'm not doing this. I just wanted to prevent answers pointing out that rights problems could be the reason for this behaviour.  

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