CDG HD to HD to CDG Failure

[Glenn&Cyndy]

Because I was moving files from 3 HD's I used Selected All, Copy-Paste to the 4th HD and dropped them all into the same folder. Each file contained 1 CD of its individual CDG files. The forth HD is a 250g External drive. I tried small batches of drag and drop to several diverant combinations of HD's and all failed [unusable because of errors] when it came to burning back to CDG disks. Do you have any idea why.

Thanks Glenn

[admin]

Never heard of this before.

It should never happen.

My guess is your Windows installation is damaged. If the .cdg files are getting damaged when you move them, Windows is doing it... not Microstudio.

I'd be very afraid that my computer was compromised if I had this occur to me.

You might try reinstalling Windows and see if it reports any errors.

Just a warning: be sure you don't have any critical files on the same drive PARTITION (typically C drive) as they could be lost when reinstalling if Windows is bad.

I lost everything on my C drive when I had a damaged Windows installation (used for 2 years with no warnings). I was installing an upgrade to a progam I used weekly and disc space ran out. That should have generated an error message, not destroy crucial Windows files. Sounds like what you have to me.

Luckily I had most of my important stuff on D and E partitions, which I was able to copy to another drive for safety. We had to low-level reformat the entire drive (with the bad Windows) to use it again.

[Glenn&Cyndy]

Interesting opinon. I will copy paste some mp3 and some .flac files and see what happins when i burn them. Thanks

Glenn

[Glenn&Cyndy]

For those of you who are following this post. I have Copy - pasted from 2 HD's to a 3rd HD 3 seperate sets of folders. 1 - 4g Movie .iso, 3 CD sized .flac folders and 3 large folders of mp3. All ran simaltaniosly. All burnt to disk and played OK. So any idea as to why we cannot copy paste CDG folders from 1 HD to another and burn back to CDG disk without errors? Thanks Glenn

[BooBoo]

Originally Posted by Glenn&Cyndy

For those of you who are following this post. I have Copy - pasted from 2 HD's to a 3rd HD 3 seperate sets of folders. 1 - 4g Movie .iso, 3 CD sized .flac folders and 3 large folders of mp3. All ran simaltaniosly. All burnt to disk and played OK. So any idea as to why we cannot copy paste CDG folders from 1 HD to another and burn back to CDG disk without errors? Thanks Glenn

1. A Virus could be affecting a file copy that does not affect a zip function.
2. As Admin stated, you could have a system file that is corrupt that is used during the copy but not during the zip.
3. IDE hardware errors. You may have an IDE adpator that is going bad, or maybe the driver is not right for that IDE adaptor.
4. The drive 4 may not be set up properly in the system bios. Could be your system does support the larger capacity drive, but the translation isn't set right for file copies.

1. Check the BIOS and note which drives are on which ontrollers and what the order is..
2. Can you copy files from drive one to drive 2 ok? If so, rule out 1 and 2.
3. Do you have a cd that came with the system that provides system drivers? If so, you may want to BACK UP THE SYSTEM, then install them.
4. Check the drive settings for drive 4 if this is the only drive that has the issue. If you have a chance to adjust the translation in the bios, try another setting and test...

These are a few ideas off the top of my head. BTW, My day job is an IT director for a large corp. I started out as a tech..

I'll be glad to help further when you have some feedback on these items if you like..