cyclic redundancy errors produced from Nero

[Noid]

I have a new cd/dvd burner.
( SONY DVD RW DW-G120A )

I been trying to burn my Ghost images to Memorex DVD as data disk.

The Ghost images are 2bg each, (spanned image creation)

The images wont burn to the DVD without this error ...

' error;win32;Data error (cyclic redundancy check). (code: 23);D:\ C.GHO '

My OS is W2K SP4 ( NTFS )
My ghost images reside on a FAT32 partition.

Can anyone suggest a fix, or a work around?

TIA

 

[VirtualLarry]

That sounds like it is giving an error reading teh file off of your HD, not burniing it.

I would run you disk mfgs low-level surface scan diagnostics on the HD.

 

[taltamir]

delete the file D:\ C.GHO

 

[Noid]

Larry - The HD has no issues.
It's a Western Digital SATA 2 drive.
Could it be the driver? Or maybe the DVD driver?

taltmar - That is the image I'm burning to disk.
I'm burning spanned Ghost images to DVD.

I'm not overclocked.
Prime95 stable.
Memtest 2 days no errors.

I'm so frustrated.
Could my new DVD burner be damaged?

I don't have another burner to try. And, my warranty is expired from NewEgg
Hmmm, I wonder if Sony has answers.

 

[Nothinman]

Larry - The HD has no issues.

How do you know? Have you tried copying the ghost image to another drive/location to see if it does indeed read properly?

 

[Noid]

Yes. I have tried that too.
I'm begining to think the Nero cant write files over 1 GB.

 

[RebateMonger]

Have you tried other brands of blank DVD media? The error you are seeing is usually associated with defective media.

You could also try a differnt DVD burning program. IMGBurn is free and has a good reputation. I've used it to burn many large ISO files (several GB), as well as many large video files to DVD.

 

[Noid]

Memorex is not good?
I'm new at this and these problems are confusing me....

The IMGburn seems to be working.
But, I don't think it's creating my 'backup' I need.

Does an ISO backup files on a hard disk?
It seems to be creating a disk that my drive doesn't recognize.
(Says I have no CD in drive)

I did a 'build' containing 2 of the 10 files I need to archive. ( 2 GB each )
And the output was sent to DVD.

Then I did a 'read' from the 'build' on the DVD with output to HD.
This put the ISO file on the hard disk, not my files.

If it did 'backup' my files.
How do I restore the files to my hard disk?

TIA

 

[Elixer]

Originally posted by: Noid
Memorex is not good?
I'm new at this and these problems are confusing me....

The IMGburn seems to be working.
But, I don't think it's creating my 'backup' I need.

Does an ISO backup files on a hard disk?
It seems to be creating a disk that my drive doesn't recognize.
(Says I have no CD in drive)

I did a 'build' containing 2 of the 10 files I need to archive. ( 2 GB each )
And the output was sent to DVD.

Then I did a 'read' from the 'build' on the DVD with output to HD.
This put the ISO file on the hard disk, not my files.

If it did 'backup' my files.
How do I restore the files to my hard disk?

TIA

ISO is a format.
I would set your burn speed lower, and see if it works with that DVD media.
If not, then maybe a bad batch of DVDs, or your burner don't like the media at all. You may want to check for firmware updates to your burner.

When you used ghost (which version?), I assume you told it to spit it to 2GB chunks? Once those are created, you *really* should create a checksum of that file, with one of the many free MD5 utilities you can find with google. Then, you tell the burning program to burn the 2GB file + the checksum file that you created with the MD5 utility, and when that is done, you verify the 2GB file went ok by doing the checksum on the 2GB file.

For restoring, depending on the version of ghost, you either boot the ghost CD/floppy, and tell it to restore, point it to the files, and it will work that way.

If this is really important data, then make multiple copies. Lifespan of CD/DVDs isn't that good.

 

[RebateMonger]

Originally posted by: Noid
The IMGburn seems to be working.
But, I don't think it's creating my 'backup' I need.

IMGBurn is able to burn serveral kinds of files:
1) It can burn a pre-existing ISO image to a CD or DVD
2) It can create an ISO image of a disk and then burn it to a CD or DVD
3) It can create an ISO image of files and folders and then burn the image to a CD or DVD
4) It can burn miscellaneous files and folders to CD or DVD

It's this last function that I suggested using to burn your Ghost files to DVD. Mainly to test whether your Nero burning program was the problem.

 

[Noid]

I had no errors with IMGburn.
But, I don't know how to restore the files to hard disk.
1. How can I see whats in the ISO?
2. How to restore the files to hard disk?

I read the help forum.
And, I did not find how to restore a file to hard disk.

My Ghost version is 2001. It runs from DOS floppy.
It has no options for size of the spanned images.
I've never had a reason to verify the Ghost images since I have NEVER had a problem restoring partitions.

I believe the IMGburn program automatically created a MD5.
And, it did verify the ISO was OK.

How to I convert the ISO back to my files?

 

[RebateMonger]

You likely don't want to burn the Ghost backup files to ISO format. To do a restore, you'd insert (apparently) a bootable Ghost floppy disk into your PC to start. Then, when it asks for the backup files, you'd insert disks containing the .GHO files. But these wouldn't be in ISO format. They'd be in "normal" CD or DVD format with individually readable files.

To create the backup DVDs with IMGBurn, use the option, " Write files/folders to disc". Don't create image files.

 

[Noid]

Thanks for helping clarify things.

My 1st try did the same thing as Nero.
I'm going to try setting the default speed to 4x now.

 

[Noid]

My problem is fixed !

Thanks to:
1. RebateMonger - for IMGbrun, and for sharing experience.
2. Elixer - -- - - --- for burn speed advice.
3. IMGburn -------- for a very nice application.
( I could not change drive speed with my version of Nero. )

5 DVDs burned at 4x ---------------- no errors.
Moved GHO files back to FAT32 ---- no errors
Restored Partition from GHO files - no errors

Too bad I ruined 15 DVD's in my testing.

 

[Noid]

One more Q.

What is the lifespan of DVDs?
I planned on putting these DVDs on the shelf.

I didn't know they would 'go bad'.

If this is really important data, then make multiple copies. Lifespan of CD/DVDs isn't that good.

 

[Elixer]

Originally posted by: Noid
One more Q.

What is the lifespan of DVDs?
I planned on putting these DVDs on the shelf.

I didn't know they would 'go bad'.

If this is really important data, then make multiple copies. Lifespan of CD/DVDs isn't that good.

Too bad there is really no way to know for sure. It depends on many things, like what material & dye they used to create the optical media, where you store it, how you store it and then you have the 'accident' factor.

That is why I said you need to make multiple copies to be safer.