Is this a problem with my discs or my drives?

[nickelzy]

I have several dvd's that I copied a couple of weeks ago, and I want to make copies of them. Up to now, everything has been working fine. I just stick the dvd in my drive, copy the files onto my harddrive, and the burn. However, the last 4 out of 7 discs that I tried doing this quit in the middle of copying the files over to my harddrive and gave me an error message "Cyclic Redundancy Error". This has happened before, and I just thought it was probably trying to copy from a bad disc (because I had some problems a few weeks ago which resulted in some bad copies). However, 4 out of 7? I've watched 3 or 4 of these movies straight through and they played fine, but they won't copy to my harddrive.

Does this sound like a disc or a drive problem? I hope it's not a drive problem, because it happens on both of my drives.

[rixh]

Cyclic Redundancy Error". means it's your dvd disk your trying too
copy has errors on it it can't read the disk , bad media problem...

[nickelzy]

Rixh -
Thank you, that's what I was hoping and expecting. Sort of funny, right after I started this thread, I opened my drive to get the disc that wouldn't work, and the label had peeled off on one of the corners. I took the rest of the label off, tried recopying and it worked fine.

The entire reason that I'm re-doing my discs is for that very reason. Adhesive labels were causing me some problems, so I bought the Epson R200 and some Memorex Printables and am going that route for now on. Never again will I put a sticky label on my disc again![/quote]

[nickelzy]

What about this error message:

"Cannot Copy VTS_08_1: Invalid MS-DOS function"

Is this also indicative of bad media? I'm thinking that it is since it is another disc that I put a sticky label on.

[g wiz]

Does this sound like a disc or a drive problem?

A little of both. If you get a Lite-On 166/s you'll never have to worry about not being able to read scratched up discs, the most common cause of the error you recieved. Although I guess in your case the label was preventing it from spinning properly inside the drive?

[jimmalenko]

Sticky labels IMO are a BAD IDEA.