Saved files won't copy from DVD's to hard drive

[Kevin]

So I'm trying to transfer my 22 GB music collection, burned to DVD's for
archiving, to my freshly formatted hard drive. I start the transfer and
without fail, one of the songs will not copy. This stops the entire copy
process. Some of my friends have asked me about why this happens and now
I'm asking the group.

Why is there not some way to continue the copy process when something like
this happens? This happens with other types of files, not just (in my case,
..wma files) music.

 

[Guest]

I actually had this same problem a few days ago. a particular music file
(.mp3) refused point blank to be transferred over from a CD. Try continuing
the transfer from the file after the one thats jaming up the works. Such as:
If file 1 copies OK, but file 2 jams, try file 3 etc..

I found that let it continue. If it stops again, just keep noting which
files it halts on, and leave them until the rest of the files are done.

The only way round it that i found, was to open Windows Movie Maker (only
works with XP WMM2), add the file, and save it to the HD via that method. It
worked, and the file played fine on the computer/mp3 player, and allowed
itself to be copied no prob.

Hopefully that helps, sorry its such a long-winded approach, but it saves
the hassle of seeing the same error every time you try, since i found out
from experience no matter how many times ya try to make it copy, it'll keep
saying no.

Good Luck! ^^

 

[bud]

So I'm trying to transfer my 22 GB music collection, burned to DVD's for
archiving, to my freshly formatted hard drive. I start the transfer and
without fail, one of the songs will not copy. This stops the entire copy
process. Some of my friends have asked me about why this happens and now
I'm asking the group.

Why is there not some way to continue the copy process when something like
this happens? This happens with other types of files, not just (in my
case, .wma files) music.

That can happen if you burn the disk at a high speed. Just because your
burner might be able to burn a disk at say 52X, doesn't mean that is a good
speed to use. More chance of corruption at the higher burn speeds.

 

[Poprivet]

So I'm trying to transfer my 22 GB music collection, burned to DVD's
for archiving, to my freshly formatted hard drive. I start the
transfer and without fail, one of the songs will not copy. This
stops the entire copy process. Some of my friends have asked me
about why this happens and now I'm asking the group.

Why is there not some way to continue the copy process when something
like this happens? This happens with other types of files, not just
(in my case, .wma files) music.

That's a pet-peeve of mine too, but ... if you don't have a 3rd party app
like DeskPro here's a decend way to do it when you have too many to do one
at a time.

Use the "rule of halves" when it won't ID which file fails to copy:
Start by trying to copy half the files. If they copy, fine, go to the other
half and continue.
IF the copy fails, try copying only half of the first half. If that
copies, try copying the second half; if it fails, but that half in half
again and repeat.

That way you're diviing the # of files by 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, etc.
YOu should fairly quickly zero in on the bad file. Delete it and try
copying the files that are left not copied yet.

Or, if you go to http://www.v-com.com/ they have a program called PowerDesk.
You have to look for it but there's a free version there, usually one
version old. It'll copy the files and simply skip the bad ones. Or you
could try a trial version; not sure what's disabled in them. I have the Pro
version and love it. I've actually replaced windows explorer with it.

HTH
Pop`

 

[Kevin]

Thanks! I'll try your solution. I would never have thought to use Movie
Maker.

 

[Kevin]

That's a pet-peeve of mine too, but ... if you don't have a 3rd party app
like DeskPro here's a decend way to do it when you have too many to do one
at a time.

Use the "rule of halves" when it won't ID which file fails to copy:
Start by trying to copy half the files. If they copy, fine, go to the
other half and continue.
IF the copy fails, try copying only half of the first half. If that
copies, try copying the second half; if it fails, but that half in half
again and repeat.

That way you're diviing the # of files by 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, etc.
YOu should fairly quickly zero in on the bad file. Delete it and try
copying the files that are left not copied yet.

Or, if you go to http://www.v-com.com/ they have a program called
PowerDesk. You have to look for it but there's a free version there,
usually one version old. It'll copy the files and simply skip the bad
ones. Or you could try a trial version; not sure what's disabled in them.
I have the Pro version and love it. I've actually replaced windows
explorer with it.

HTH
Pop`

Thanks for the info! I've heard of Power Desk before so maybe I'll give it
a try. You would think that Microsoft would have considered this problem in
designing Windows Explorer. It should automatically note the file that
won't copy, archive it for you, then continue with the data transfer giving
you a notification when the transfer is complete about which file(s) didn't
copy. How hard could that be?