Cyclic Redundancy check error

[Gordon]

Help! All I am trying to do is copy a file from my Zip drive to my HDD and I
get "Cyclic Redundancy Check" error. Why, and how do I copy the file?

Thanks

 

[Ken Blake]

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Help! All I am trying to do is copy a file from my Zip drive to
my
HDD and I get "Cyclic Redundancy Check" error. Why, and how do
I copy
the file?

It would appear that the file is corrupted.

 

[Gordon]

In


It would appear that the file is corrupted.

What I've done, is I've downloaded XP SP2 from MS at work as I have
broadband access there and only 128k ISDN at home! Unfortunately, the only
medium I have available to get the file home is a 100MB Zip drive, so I used
a file splitter to split the file into three. The first two sections copied
properly, the third has this error. If I do it again tomorrow, is there a
way to check that the sections copied onto the three Zip disks are not
corrupted?

Thanks

 

[Malke]

What I've done, is I've downloaded XP SP2 from MS at work as I have
broadband access there and only 128k ISDN at home! Unfortunately, the
only medium I have available to get the file home is a 100MB Zip
drive, so I used a file splitter to split the file into three. The
first two sections copied properly, the third has this error. If I do
it again tomorrow, is there a way to check that the sections copied
onto the three Zip disks are not corrupted?

Thanks

Don't you have a friend with broadband and a cd-burner? Or just be
patient (there isn't any rush) and order a cd from Microsoft for free:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp2/cdorder/en_us/default.m
spx

(note that the above url wraps in my newsreader and will have to be
entered into your browser's addressbar on one line)

Malke

 

[Ken Blake]

In

What I've done, is I've downloaded XP SP2 from MS at work as I
have
broadband access there and only 128k ISDN at home!
Unfortunately, the
only medium I have available to get the file home is a 100MB
Zip
drive, so I used a file splitter to split the file into three.
The
first two sections copied properly, the third has this error.
If I do
it again tomorrow, is there a way to check that the sections
copied
onto the three Zip disks are not corrupted?

Try reading the zip disks at work before you take them home.

 

[Plato]

What I've done, is I've downloaded XP SP2 from MS at work as I have
broadband access there and only 128k ISDN at home! Unfortunately, the only
medium I have available to get the file home is a 100MB Zip drive, so I used
a file splitter to split the file into three. The first two sections copied
properly, the third has this error. If I do it again tomorrow, is there a
way to check that the sections copied onto the three Zip disks are not
corrupted?

You can try new, fresh zip disks. File splitters aren't without their
hangups however. A burned cd is the way to go really.

 

[Gordon]

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Try reading the zip disks at work before you take them home.

I re-d/loaded at work, resplit the file, tested the copies, copied them back
at home, re-combined the file, installed, and Bingo! SP2 with (at the
moment) no problems at all!

Excellent!