Copying files off CD causes Windows Vista to crash; how to copy from a CD with some errors on it?

[prowsej]

I have a cd that I burned some of my files onto as a backup five years ago. I want to copy all of the files off of it onto my hard drive.

The problem is that when I select all of the files and folders in Windows Vista and drag them to a folder on my hard drive the file copying dialogue box locks up and explorer crashes. Before this happens dialogue boxes repeatedly come up saying that specific files cannot be copied;I just choose the 'skip all' checkbox. I think that some of the files on the CD are somehow damaged and cannot be copied, but I want to copy all of the ones that still work.

I tried selecting all of the files and dragging-and-dropping them twice and Windows crashed both times, forcing me to restart the computer each time. How should I copy the files off this CD? Is there another program that I could use that would be more tolerant of errors? Do you have any general suggestions about this issue?

Thank you.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Try booting a Live CD and transferring it that way?

 

[krose]

Not familiar with Vista, but you could try the xcopy or robocopy commands. Apparently robocopy is an update to xcopy in Vista. I find using xcopy in XP seems to work better than copying files in windows explorer.

 

[jmcb]

U can try Isobuster. Its a cd/dvd data recovery app. I used it once to recover stuff from an old cd I had. U can use it to try to extract the files u wanna copy to your harddrive.

 

[Tarrant64]

Stop selecting all of the files. If your using XP it's not smart enough to skip files that didn't error out and keep copying. Try them one at a time. Also, what is the error your getting, a CRC (cyclic redundancy check)?