XP will not complete file copy - results in an error.

[Hasit]

This questions is related to this thread: thread779-297389

I have a file on a CD which is around 620MB (its a movie file). I wanted to copy it to hard disk, and so I used the following methods:

1. Using Explorer, I dragged the file from CD to a folder on my hard disk;

2. I used the menus in Explorer to copy the file;

3. I highlighted the file on the CD, right clicked, COPYed the file and then PASTEd it to a folder on the hard disk;

4. I used DOS to perform the copy using the COPY command (no switches)

and all (ALL!) resulted in the same error. It copied the file to memory and then at the point of completing the copying to disk, I get an error: "Invalid MS-DOS Function"

My environment is a 700Mhz Pentium with 4GB disk (only 1.9GB is used) and 128MB of memory.

I checked Microsoft's website and got nothing, I checked the internet in general and got nothing.

Any thoughts anyone??

 

[wolluf]

Don't know if relevant - are you using Fat32 or NTFS filestore (remember vaguely that FAT32 has a smaller maximum file size, though thought it was GB rather than MB). Can you zip the file to hard drive?

 

[BChumie]

When you used dos did you do it from windows or did you actually boot into dos from a boot disk. If you haven't tried a boot disk into dos I would do that... but remeber it won't work if you are running a ntfs filesystem on your hard drive. You might also want to check the cd for errors.

-Brad

 

[Hasit]

Both good points - thanks. Will check the Dos boot option tonight as well possibility of zipping the file.

The file itself is fine (as is the CD), because the movie plays from the CD.

 

[Hasit]

Sorry, I should have said that the movie plays from the CD (and copies to disk) on another XP machine.

 

[Hasit]

Sorry, I should have said that the movie plays from the CD (and copies to disk) on another XP machine - just not on mine!

 

[linney]

What CD writing software do you have on your machine and what CD writing software is being used on the machine that will copy this CD?

 

[Shaith]

Seems the only thing you haven't tried is right-click-dragging the file to the destination and letting go, then clicking the Copy Here selection when the dialog box popped up.

Check your event logs and see if there are errors there - you may have a bad sector on the hard drive, and this is preventing the copy from working. So try the copy once, and if it bombs, read the event log. If there are references to disk-related problems, run chkdsk /r on that drive.
Shaith
Network Engineer
MCP, Windows XP

 

[Hasit]

Shaith: Excellent idea.

I will check that today. On the other question raised by linney, I have no CD writer software. The CD I have was created for me. I have a standard read only CD.

I'll report back asap.