@San_Marco
Bad clusters can be a sign that the hard drive is going. (cynthia_ can probably give you a more detailed answer).
The scandisc/chkdsk is a good maintenance tool to run at least monthly.
When you set it up to run it will run on a restart then restart when finished. Depending on how bad the hard drive is and/or pc specs may take a bit - let it do it's thing.
Have you been keeping up with other pc maintenance - like virus & spyware scans, disc cleanup, system defrag? (there's always virus/spyware running around!)
Keep your all your drive's transfer modes too - make sure in DMA & not PIO - any reason for slowness. Make sure you look at 'current transfer mode' - this should say the DMA also. Here's guide:
http://home.comcast.net/~bbmayo/checking%20DMA.pdf
I have the same error the topic starter has (but at different sector point).
It's really weird, because I have NEVER EVER experienced this problem before, and I do find it VERY funny how a lot of us are having similar problems just now. One theory that I have is that Microsoft included something in their latest update.
But the weird thing is that it works if you burn it to a DVD+RW cd with no error! I try it with a DVR+R and it fails at 50%. WTF? If this was a hard drive error, both tries would fail no matter what CD you use.
For the blank DVD+R, I'm using TDK, the CD's themselves have nothing on them and have a rough white paper surface on them. What is the problem, the CD's?
@San_Marco
Yes follow that guide - you are in PIO transfer mode and not DMA transfer- this will def. slow things down.
Let's us know how that goes.
@SovMish
Yours sounds like a media and/or firmware problem not a hard drive problem. TDK uses different manufacturers -not always good ones either.
So run the disc thru decrypter and see who actually manufactured the disc.
If your drives firmware is not up date (best to keep it up to date) it may not have the proper write strategies (media codes) and this could be why it is failing also.
I've had that cyclic redundecy error and solved it by first burning an ISO w/ DVD Decrypter, then open the ISO w/ DVD Shrink and backup as usual. You'll have to use DVD Decrypt or another burn app to put "shrinked" ISO to DVD. Kinda monotonous, but it works for me.
sorry but i have this problem. and its not the dvddescrypter is the media you use for burn the iso. I cannot use DVD+R but i use with no problem dbd-R.
If you have the solution tell me please and emailme to max_fq@hotmail.com.
Its the writer and maybe an update of the firmware fix the problem, but i cannot locate this firmware update.
