Weird Problem

[Lucifer]

Hi,

I have this weird problem on one PC here used for DVD authoring:

We burn DVDs from folders containing prepared DVD titles, stored on
USB2.0 hard drives. Now, for no apparent reason, the burn process errors out
(Error reading file: I/O error) at random. The USB2.0 drives work
fine at another similar PC in the workplace. The burn process errors occur
randomly for source folders on on-board drives too!

Transfering files to/from any USB unit we have sometimes comes up with the
same error at random.

We tried ripping our own DVDs back to the hard drive - the rip process
itself came up with CRC errors. The discs can, again, be ripped without
error on any other PC. And the discs play perfectly on regular DVD players.

Sometimes this PC cannot read DVDs created by itself - CRC errors. But they
play fine (PowerDVD) on the PC as well as on any regular DVD player. The
errors follow no pattern that can be discerned. The USB2.0 units here work
fine on any other PC for the same files!

This one is baffling in its randomness. The error only happens with DVDs. We
tried using other burning software - the inhouse authoring and burning
software is Sony DVD Architect. Roxio and Nero give the same errors, but for
completely different source files!

I shall be grateful for any pointers on where to look. The problem seems,
for now, to be associated only with DVD files and the burning process.

Thanks a lot in anticipation.

Lucifer

PS: The PC has been thoroughly checked for spyware and worms and viruses -
Norton, MS Anti-Spyware, AdAware, Spybot. SFC /Scannow was completed also.
So was CHKDSK and Norton. Nothing detected at all. This PC is completely
up-to-date with all updates installed.

 

[Guest]

As a suggestion, you would get a better response if you had a better subject
heading than "Weird Problem."

Most other users are likely to bypass your message and ignore it.

 

[Lucifer]

Sorry, needed to add that this PC has two DVD drive's - one a DVD-ROM and
the other a DVD+R Writer. The eoor in ripping our own DVD coocurs on either
drive, both being less than six months old.

The I/O error occurs if we try to simply copy a (large) VOB file directly
from the DVD to the hard drive. Sometimes the process ends with a CRC error.
The error never occurs twice at the same position in copying any file on
either device.

For me, this only adds to my complete befuddlement.

Lucifer

 

[Lucifer]

Thanks for the suggestion.

Accepted! Reposted! How does it look now?

Lucifer

 

[kurttrail]

As a suggestion, you would get a better response if you had a better
subject heading than "Weird Problem."

Most other users are likely to bypass your message and ignore it.

Actually, I read it.

Post the same query more than once tends to piss many around here too.

I'm just reluctant to help the anyone that voluntarily identifies with
the darkside of the force!

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[Lucifer]

The Force is like duct tape - it has a light side and it has a dark side and
it holds the Universe together.

You don't have good without evil, no light without darkness, no tangible
energy without dark energy, no matter without dark matter, no single-sided
coin, no true magnetic monopole, no God )or even Satan) without Lucifer. I
am pretty happy that my existence causes this universe to do likewise.

At least I am pretty much satsified at fulfilling my destiny at the "other
helm" of the cosmos.

Remember: You need me to have any light at all. No wonder the illuminescent
enzyme is called luciferase.

Your website is hilarious BTW.

;-)

Lucifer