LG 4040 - Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check)

[sikburns]

I copied about 20 DV avi files to 4 DVD-R's in order to free up some space for another project. When i came to transfer the files back onto my system i was OK for about half the files then I started getting this mesage

Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check)

and the copying stopped!! Argh!

Where could this be coming from? Is there a program that will rip the contents of my disk which is more powerful than the standard eindows copy facilty?

Cheers

[Viper10000]

sikburns,

"Data Error (Cyclic Redundancy Check)" means something wrong with your media (i.e. DVD). It could be the followings:

* Media is dirty
* Media is scratch
* Cheap media can have a unreadable sector, even though you have a successful burn.

So when your software encounter that sector, it produced the above error. You can try another DVD-ROM reader to see if it can read it. In my experience, some DVD reader can read it better than others.

Cheers

[steve h]

Sikburns,
I think it is the drive. I had this drive for few days before. I burnt 2 movie dvd-r's with it and both burned fine. But when I tried to extract one of the movies on my work computer, it failed. Then I noticed on the disc closely very small black streaks 'radially' on the later part of the disc. I may be wrong but I believe the burner over burnt that little portion and my dvd-rom couldn't read past that point. I had saved those compressed movie files on my home computer before and I burned them on the same brand disc(Pine) with Pioneer 106 writer and it played back fine.