...Hey guys & gals, here's one to puzzle over:
I DLd some Linux ISOs onto my sister's PC a cpl days ago, and put 'em on my 4 GB thumbdrive by way of "moving" 'em there.
I went home to transfer them to my own PC, and while the File Mgr recognized that they were on there and told me their (correct) filesizes, it refused to move them on over to my PC. It generated an error message that the files were "corrupt" and "unreadable", advising me to run scandisk/checkdisk on the thumbdrive.
I did so, only to find Windows reporting no errors whatsoever. I ran a number of other similar apps on my thumb to check for data/filesystem errors, and likewise everything came back as "no errors". Still the filenames and filesizes are accurately reported, my PC just won't let me DO anything with 'em; I cannot get these files off my thumb and onto my PC.
(Oddly, though, I managed to use the German "File Recovery 4" app to transfer a 3.5 MB MP3 file over to the PC; only it choked when trying to do so with the ISO files. The MP3 hadn't been deleted, but FR4 was able to "recover" it nonetheless. Weird, eh?...)
Anyhoo, anybody have any theories as to what the problem is here?...
Thx in advance for any light y'all can shed here.
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simmilar problems with iso files. windows hates them. i had the problem when transferring 'freespire' to my flash and i got a message that said "do you wish to continue? continueing may loose or corrupt some files." or something like that. only thing that i can think of is to tru to open the file in notepad and transfer all of the code into your comp and then re-rename it to be an iso file, another thing is try recording the iso to disk (burning an iso image) or just flat out renameing it before/after the transfer.
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Zoop
...Try to open the *ISO* files in notepad?...
- AFAIK, notepad can't handle 600 MB+ worth of content at once.
If memory serves, it can't even handle ONE meg, for that matter....
- As for burning the Iso's to disc, it's a no-go. IsoImg 2x complains that the filesize is unobtainable, and then Window$ complains again that the files are "corrupt" (Too bad Window$ can't *prove* the corruption by way of $candi$k turning up any ACTUAL error$...)
- Btw, the site you linked to is a bona fide mess.
As for the other 2 sites, they appear to be fairly content-free.
...What up wit' 'dat?...
/curious
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have you found md5 hash of files and compared to what they should be?
word processors that cant handle it, notepad is so damn basic that it can. if it is still on the original comp and you dont want to use the notepad thing, just burn it to disk from the original comp using an iso recorder, a plain burn wil not work because windows cant burn the iso immage, it would just make the disk useless.
use roxio5 or "iso recorder", ill post a link to where i got it from later. i dont have the link here at school.
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you could use InfraRecorder to burn isos it's open source, i dont have the link here at work, but google should find it as the first link.
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Already tried burning the ISO w/ IsoImg 2x (portable app; freeware, possibly open-source as well) - got lame error mssgs, as per my last post.
Sure, I could try it w/ a cpl other similar apps, but I expect the results would be the same.
Lemme put it this way:
If I *do* have success w/ any other apps I try this operation with, I'll post here to that effect, 'kay?...
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For future reference...I would have used 7-zip to shrink the ISO file size down and add some sort of CRC check (I'm not sure what 7-zip uses for that) before making the move to the thumbdrive. My BartPE ISO file shrinks from 151MB to around 48MB after 7-zipping. Beside being faster to move, it reduces the possibility of read/write errors happening. I store ISO files 7-zipped to save space so this is already a habit for me. I 'spose 7-zipping an ISO file or two just to move them around would be a pain, but it's an idea at least if you keep having this issue.
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...it's too early to say about "keep having" this problem, since I've only had it this once. Until I get this one time figured out and resolved, I won't be DL'ing any more ISOs to my thumb. All I can say is that I've never experienced this problem before this 'one time'...
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