'Bitcoin Core - Error' I just tried downloading Bitcoin Core to my PC today for the first time and am getting an error. I am a noob to this, but was hoping someone could point me in the right direction in getting this fixed as I'm trying to get smarter on this stuff. Google led me to try re-indexing, but unfortunately that crashed as well after a few hours of running.
The below is the error message and the debug file. It appears it crashed due to a corrupt block found and potential hardware error. It could certainly be a hardware error as I only currently have the storage space for a full node on an old HDD, but haven't had any issues with this HDD previously.
Appreciate any help here. Thanks!



New Error When downloading on new SSD
This error occurs when a block that was written to disk is corrupted. This could be due to hardware failure or just simply random chance. Since the corrupted block for you occurred early on, the easiest way to fix this issue is to simply delete the blockchain and redownload it. To do that, just delete the blocks/ and chainstate/ folders inside of the datadir (the directory that contains the debug.log file). Then start Bitcoin Core.