How to copy files? Skip damaged files?

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HotRod

I have a CD that has some damage to it but I'd like to recover as many of
the files as possible. When I try to copy the CD to my harddrive it stops as
soon as it hits a bad file, the same thing happens when I try and do an
Xcopy in MSDOS. Does anyone know of a way to jsut skip broken or damaged
files and move on to the enxt one?
 
CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) is a fairly common issue on
Optical media. To my knowledge there isn't a Skip-&-Continue
method for copying. You might check around on the Internet for
a tool that attempts to read the damaged areas more slowly. It's
not a high % approach but will sometimes let you retrieve data.
Otherwise you can do a manual copy of small sections of the disk,
- slow and cumbersome but will work.
 
HotRod said:
I have a CD that has some damage to it but I'd like to recover as many of
the files as possible. When I try to copy the CD to my harddrive it stops as
soon as it hits a bad file, the same thing happens when I try and do an
Xcopy in MSDOS. Does anyone know of a way to jsut skip broken or damaged
files and move on to the enxt one?
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ISOBuster http://www.isobuster.com/
 
HotRod said:
I have a CD that has some damage to it but I'd like to recover as many of
the files as possible. When I try to copy the CD to my harddrive it stops
as soon as it hits a bad file, the same thing happens when I try and do an
Xcopy in MSDOS. Does anyone know of a way to jsut skip broken or damaged
files and move on to the enxt one?
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Use the /C switch with xcopy. That tells it to continue even if errors
occur.
 
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