Cyclic Redundancy Error- help!!

[mtbiac]

I'm trying to copy a bunch of large (650mb) files over to my laptop via the 24x cdrom, but I keep getting a Cyclic Rendunacy error after about 5-6min of transfering. Also, the transfer windows varies in estimated time from 17min to upto 85min, when in reality this should take about 5min+... The weird this is that I just installed WinXP with the same cdrom, no problems. I have tried burning the files onto CD at 4x thinking that 40x may have been too fast, but same problem. The CDs are TDK and brand new.

any ideas? leaving for vacation tmrw and REALLY need to get this working ASAP

thanks

 

[nboy22]

not sure, but maybe u could try USB transferring???? i don't know if it requires a hub.. crc errors are a big bitch , or if u got a wire-required network card in both u could go buy a cheap network hub and hook the computers together on a network and transfer files with windows file sharing

 

[cmai]

I work at a video processing department and this happens sometimes. It's usually an isolated file that causes the cyclic redundancy error. Find this file and transfer everything else. I'm not sure how to fix the file. But for video files we resample it using TMPEnc and it works.

Hope this helps,

cmai

 

[nboy22]

crc error = bits being dropped off, u maybe need a reformat of ur desktop if that's what the crc errors are coming from, hell, it could even be ur labtop, but chances are it's the desktop, it was happening to me recently, i had to format every drive, it sucked, but i don't get them any more, i would try usb or network before a format though .. and i know format is really not an option for u, so it's hard to say what u could do

 

[Jeff7]

Dirty lens in the drive or bad CD media maybe? If the lens is dirty, the drive might not be able to compensate for both that, and the slight increase in wobble as the laser moves away from the center of the disc.
What kind of disc is this? CD-R or RW? Does this happen with all of the discs you've tried?

The laptop's CD drive might also need a firmware upgrade, if there's one available, to improve CD-RW readability.