Data Error: Cyclic Redundancy Check.........is the file lost forever?

[iamme]

i have some files on a CD-R that i'm trying to dump onto my HD. i get a "Data Error: Cyclic Redundancy Check" error and it fails to copy.

any hope to recover the file?

 

[nater]

I tried to transfer about 20 gigs of music videos to a hard drive on another network computer and I got CRC errors for just about every other file...but the files play fine off my hard drive...

 

[conjur]

Bad spot on the CD?

Is this the same drive with which you burned the CD? If so, you're probably screwed. If not, try it on the burning drive.

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: nater
I tried to transfer about 20 gigs of music videos to a hard drive on another network computer and I got CRC errors for just about every other file...but the files play fine off my hard drive...

unfortunately, the file stops about half way through the copying 🙁

Originally posted by: conjur
Bad spot on the CD?

Is this the same drive with which you burned the CD? If so, you're probably screwed. If not, try it on the burning drive.

it's a different HD. upon inspecting the CD-R, there are a few "spots" that look damaged 🙁 not scratched, but it looks like a "fleck" of dye is missing. very tiny. would one of those Disc Doctor things work, maybe?

by "burning the drive", do you mean making a CD image?

 

[conjur]

i meant try reading the CD on the drive that burned the CD originally.

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: conjur
i meant try reading the CD on the drive that burned the CD originally.

oh, that HD is long gone 🙁

 

[conjur]

Not the HD...CD burner drive 🙂

 

[Kntx]

if a you get a CRC error on a file with lossy compression it shouldn't be too big a deal. But if it's something that needs to be lossless, the file is no good.

 

[iamme]

ok, the CD burner drive gave the same error 🙁

it's 2.08MB MP3

i tried playing it with WinAMP and it seemed to play ok.

how about just capturing the audio through WinAMP?