Copy, but ignore corrupt/bad/CRC errors

[Guest]

Here's the situation - XP Home, SP2

I'm digging through old CDRs, getting rid of absolute junk (Win95 drivers?
Chuck it. BeOS utilites? Toss...) and saving some of the stuff I can, to be
actually *organized* and probably re-burned.

Needless to say, some of these CDs aren't in *pristine* shape... ok, that's
like saying getting to England from Maine might require crossing a little
water, but still.

Trying to copy as a group, through Windows Explorer or DOS, is...
irritating. It's great when they're all on good sections of the disk, but
when they're not, either on a scratch or whatnot... it just quits and ignores
everything else.

For instance, say I have:
Aircraft01-01.jpg
Aircraft01-02.jpg
Aircraft01-03.jpg
Aircraft01-04.jpg
Aircraft01-05.jpg
Aircraft01-06.jpg
Aircraft01-07.jpg

"03" is corrupted or has a CRC error. I'll get 01 and 02... but it'll just
give an error at 03 and ignore the rest. (Actually, half the time it seemsto
be grabbing 07 and working its way back.)

Now, yeah, I can try copying a file at a time, but... I'm looking at
hundreds of files here. Checking the copy command's help in the command
prompt did nothing useful. And I'm unaware of a setting that will skip and/or
list errors...

Is there any means of doing this *cleanly?* I have no problem grabbing some
shareware file manager to do it, especially if it'll give me a list of files
that gave errors. I'll be even happier if there's a way in XP to do so.

 

[createwindow]

Dear EGMcCann,

Open up a command prompt and type xcopy /? to get a list of the
options for xcopy (which has more options than copy).


I know it has /C (Continues copying even if errors occur) as one of
its many options.

Good luck,

CreateWindow
http://mymessagetaker.com
The while-you-were-out message program you have been looking for!

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Here's the situation - XP Home, SP2

I'm digging through old CDRs, getting rid of absolute junk (Win95 drivers?
Chuck it. BeOS utilites? Toss...) and saving some of the stuff I can, to
be
actually *organized* and probably re-burned.

Needless to say, some of these CDs aren't in *pristine* shape... ok,
that's
like saying getting to England from Maine might require crossing a little
water, but still.

Trying to copy as a group, through Windows Explorer or DOS, is...
irritating. It's great when they're all on good sections of the disk, but
when they're not, either on a scratch or whatnot... it just quits and
ignores
everything else.

For instance, say I have:
Aircraft01-01.jpg
Aircraft01-02.jpg
Aircraft01-03.jpg
Aircraft01-04.jpg
Aircraft01-05.jpg
Aircraft01-06.jpg
Aircraft01-07.jpg

"03" is corrupted or has a CRC error. I'll get 01 and 02... but it'll just
give an error at 03 and ignore the rest. (Actually, half the time it
seemsto
be grabbing 07 and working its way back.)

Now, yeah, I can try copying a file at a time, but... I'm looking at
hundreds of files here. Checking the copy command's help in the command
prompt did nothing useful. And I'm unaware of a setting that will skip
and/or
list errors...

Is there any means of doing this *cleanly?* I have no problem grabbing
some
shareware file manager to do it, especially if it'll give me a list of
files
that gave errors. I'll be even happier if there's a way in XP to do so.

CRC stands for Cyclic Redundancy Check. It means that Windows
is unable to read some of the data off your CDs. It is unlikely that the
/c switch used by xcopy.exe will let you skip over the errors. You
may have more luck if you try the flawed CDs on different CD drives.

 

[Guest]

You could try xxcopy, a freeware program. Get it from http://www.xxcopy.com

GS

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

xxcopy.exe is a greatly enhanced version of xcopy.exe.
However, it is still subject to the same restrictions as
xcopy.exe: It will not continue on CRC errors.

 

[Plato]

"03" is corrupted or has a CRC error. I'll get 01 and 02... but it'll just
give an error at 03 and ignore the rest. (Actually, half the time it seemsto
be grabbing 07 and working its way back.)

Next time save your most important data to at least two forms of backup,
and keep them in separate place. And, check them each to make sure the
data is good before you store them away.