Bad CD-ROMs-Cyclic redundancy check

[kirchfg]

For those having the feature install failure-cyclic redundancy check, there is a good chance that you have a bad CD or a dirty CD.

First off, clean the CD using isp alcohol and a clean soft cloth. DO NOT use paper towels as they will scratch the CD. You might want to check around the web and find best practices for cleaning a CD/DVD.

Try to install again. If it fails with the same cyclic redundancy error, here is a way to check the CD.

I ran across a program called CD Check, which can be found here:
http://www.elpros.si/CDCheck/

Scan the suspect CD and if there is a problem with it, you'll get an error message.

No thanks to Take2 Support, I managed to track this down on my own. I spent 10 minutes talking to our find British friends...which North American support is directed to the UK.

 

[Zethris]

Sometimes you get Yorkies sometimes you get Yankies. I have had both. Depends on the call volume and the time. Anyways, another thing I might point out, these cd's use stupid anti copy routines that some older cd-roms might not support, for example the starting "track" of the cd and the list of "tracks" on the directory is in a different position than normal to confuse some cd burning software. It's a pretty silly attempt, but it definatly takes out most cd-rom/DVD drives that are older than 4 years no matter what their max speed is. I am trying to find the new ISO standard that was sold as a "performance enhancement" to cd-drives but it was a total lie and actually is an atempt at copy protection. I guess their thinking for who designed it was that all the 'pirates' are too cheap to buy it must be cheap with the upgrades too and have old hardware. It just seems to fit with their invertedly backwards type of thinking that they do these days.