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230400	2004-04-19 03:06:00	After a hard drive failure I am trying to reinstall some mpegs that I have burnt to cd on to a new hard drive. I keep getting a message "Wrong Parameter". What have I done wrong and can I correct this	KevinC (5543)
230401	2004-04-19 03:29:00	That depends just where the message is coming from and more importantly exactly what you are doing to invoke it.	godfather (25)
230402	2004-04-19 03:36:00	If you are just using "drag and drop" then you may need to finalise the CD-R that the files are on. Exactly how did you write them to the CD-R? Multisession?	godfather (25)
230403	2004-04-19 08:10:00	Hi Godfather. Would you like to contact me via email @ kbc@orcon.net.nz so I can go through what I am doing wrong. I originally burnt the files on to a cd to keep. But I have had three faulty h/d in last 6 weeks and now have my fourth replacement and have lost everything on h/d. I am trying to put the files back on h\d. They are mpegs. Some seem to go back other wont and the message I get is wrong parameter or faulty ms dos function. I am using XP Pro Thanks for your help	KevinC (5543)
230404	2004-04-19 08:44:00	Any help from me can only be provided here, not by email sorry . Also do not post an email address here unless its a throw-away one, as spammers harvest any email addresses in these and other public forums . Your error message is strange, "faulty ms dos function" is not a normal error message I would expect . "Invalid ms dos function" is more an expected error however . You have to be exact about any error message or possible solutions can be quite wrong . What you are seeing is not uncommon (assuming "Invalid ms dos" error) and can be related to a poor burn on the CD causing read errors . On an mpeg file, its quite possible that the video file could be read OK as a video because errors are well tolerated by VCD/DVD reader programs, the video distortion is insignificant . Windows however just treats it as a data file when you copy it and objects when any error is discovered . Make sure the CD is clean . A dirty CD can cause it as well . Another problem that can cause the error is the file and path name being more than 127 characters long . But - did you burn the CD without finalising it, and if so have you tried to finalise it?	godfather (25)
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