On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 09:05:57PM -0400, Ken Lin wrote:
> I had burned some files off the hard drive to CD-R a few months ago to free
> up some hard drive space, to my horror I now find some of the files on the
> CD seemed to be corrupted even when it is read by the same built-in CD-R/W
> drive of my laptop that wrote the original files to CD-R, an external DVD/CD
> R/W drive connected to the same laptop appear to have same problems with the
> same files so the problem appears to be on the CD media itself.
> All the MS Word and Excel files on the root directory of the CD seemed to be
> fine, but randomly there are some .jpg files in other folders that will not
> read, the drive will try for quite some time and then puts up an error
> message "Cannot copy file_name: data error (cyclic redundancy check)",
> Any thoughts on the cause of this problem? any thoughts on ways of
> recovering the images even if they are corrupted?
I'm guessing that there are no visible scratches on the media or you'd have
mentioned them.
My first attempt would be to try more different drives than the two you've
tried so far, in the hope that they'll have different reading characteristics.
John
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