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Good afternoon, dear readers and subscribers of the blog, I constantly tell you about new models of SSD drives and what new volumes they take, and that HDDs will soon die out, before this happens, many people, including me, keep information on hard drives. It is on them that I transfer my collection of films, which I previously had on DVD discs. At that time, HDDs were small in size, and there were no alternatives for cheap data storage. Everything seems to be fine, but there are times when it is not possible to copy a file from a DVD disc, it breaks off at 80 or 90 percent, what to do in such a situation and what can be done to extract any file.

We answer the question why we cannot copy the file. And this is how I tell my case, although I am sure that this happens to many people. You insert a CD or DVD, start copying files from it to your computer, in my case it’s Windows 8.1, I can’t really stomach 10. At some stage of copying the file I get the following error:

Cannot read from file or disk

And the most annoying thing is that it was cut off at 95 percent, that is, most of the file is suitable for copying; below we will look at the typical reasons leading to this error.

Why can't I copy a file from a DVD?

Let's go over the reasons why you cannot copy the desired file:

Your media was recorded crookedly, but this happens if you used a not entirely professional program, or it is not entirely compatible with the brand of your DVD disc
A defective DVD disc, both expensive verbeiten-type discs and cheap ones without a name are guilty of this
Physical damage to the media (scratches, chips, exposure to sunlight)

Retrieving files from unreadable disks

Non-Stop Copy Utility

When you have a similar error and cannot copy a file, special utilities can help you out. In such situations, in 2010 I became acquainted with Dmitry Sergeev’s very simple and small Non-Stop Copy utility.

The utility is completely free and does not require installation, that is, the Portable version, but despite its modest size, it does a titanic job, and easily solves the problem of using optical media.

Launch Non-Stop Copy, you will need two actions, firstly, indicate the source file, what you need to extract and there are problems with this, secondly, indicate where to copy and click Start. The program will start copying the file, the successfully copied location will be displayed with a green mark, but there is no red mark, but in the end you will still pull out the file, but in a slightly damaged form, I think for video files this is not so critical, in my case it is an acceptable loss.

I will give a few more utilities that can copy a file from a scratched disk.

Unstoppable Copier utility

Also, the free Unstoppable Copier program will help you solve the problem when the disk cannot be read.

The utility itself is completely free. Installation should not be difficult for you; you just need to press forward a couple of times. We launch Unstoppable Copier, first of all, in the source field, through the Browse button, we indicate the file that needs to be copied from the disk or folder.

Then in the destination field, we also indicate through the review where to put it and click copy.

As soon as the process is launched, at the bottom of Unstoppable Copier, if it receives an error: it is not possible to copy the file, then this will be displayed in the Reading errors field; if it turns out that something useful is pulled out, then it will be displayed in the Copied damaged field.

One of the disadvantages of the utility is that it takes a long time to read damaged disk sectors, but unlike Non Stop Copy, it tries to restore them if possible

ANyReader utility

The error “cannot copy the file” can be fixed with cool paid programs, one of my favorites is ANyReader.

You can download the trial version of ANyReader from the website http://www.anyreader.com/ru/

There is a limitation that it allows you to merge only 700 MB of data, which is basically normal for a regular CD. Anyone who needs it can easily find an activated portable version on the Internet.

Launch ANyReader, read the welcome window and click next.

in the second step, select copy files, just for scratched disks.

Select a file or folder to copy

Specify the directory to save the file; other settings can be left as default.

Your file is downloading and you will see the copying progress at the top of ANyReader.

Unlike the previous utility, this one does everything very quickly, which is what you pay for. In principle, this set of software should be enough for you to get out of a situation where you cannot read the disk.

When migrating a user profile or copying user data, the process is sometimes interrupted because the system is unable to copy the file or folder.

This article will discuss one of the causes of data copying and transfer errors, in which a message like this appears: The file (or folder) cannot be copied. The file name specified is incorrect or too long. Error - Cannot copy file As is often the case, the reason that Windows Explorer fails to copy a file or fails to copy a folder is not necessarily because the file name is too long or because it uses invalid characters in its name. Although, of course, the first thing you need to do is make sure that everything is in order with the file name. System messages about the impossibility of copying a file or folder (and, similarly, about the impossibility of deleting a file or folder) may appear if the maximum file path length allowed for Windows XP is exceeded. The limit on the length of the path is as follows: 255 characters (most likely, this is the case), or 128 attachments (never encountered). Let's say you find that the path to a file that can't be copied is too long, but the system still can't copy the data. We're stuck. How to get out of a deadlock? There are three options. First way The solution to the problem is obvious - some of the attachment folders on the path to the files that cannot be copied should be named with shorter names so that the path length falls within the limit. Another option for the same method is to shorten the path to the data by copying it to “earlier” folders - those that are closer to the beginning of the path. Second way. The problem with accessing a file or folder may be caused by the fact that it is occupied by another process. If the first method does not help, try restarting your computer and repeating the action. Third way. If for some reason this method of solving the problem is not possible or Windows still cannot copy the file or folder (or delete it), you can resort to using a special utility. Built into the operating system. It is intended for other purposes, but will help us too. To shorten the too long path, let's imagine one of the subfolders as a virtual disk. For this purpose we use the command subst(command help - subst/?) entered on the command line. On the menu Start select a team Execute, in the line we type cmd, then run subst. We start copying from the virtual disk, and the messages Cannot copy the file or Cannot copy the folder will no longer appear. Helpful advice

When creating file and folder names, try to use Latin letters instead of Cyrillic: photo > foto, video > video, etc. This will help avoid many problems.

The article describes a possible solution to the problem when, when trying to transfer files (especially those just downloaded or transferred from another computer) from one folder to another, a characteristic error window appears that Failed to copy file due to some error:

Failed to copy the file: what are the main reasons?

And there are usually few reasons for this in Windows. In general, most of these errors (and this cannot be called an error) are related to the security of user files and settings. And, if such errors (especially those related to moving recently received files no matter where from) appear, preventing these files from moving freely, this means that Windows is simply trying to protect itself (and a whole bunch of you) from the possible consequences of the files. That is, we will have to dig into the security settings. For example, it has such rights, and by disabling it you will solve half of such problems.

Failed to copy file: first.

Let’s immediately check the security settings of the file itself in its own Properties. Right-click on the icon, General tab, button Unblock:

The button is active and implies the ability to apply this setting. Let's click We apply and we work.

Failed to copy file: second.

It is possible that you will have to raise the rights in the system. Go to the Local Policy console from the Windows search bar:

Secpol.msc

Sequentially on the left we will open Local policies->Security settings and on the right side of the console we will find the setting

Double-click to change the setting to Disabled. Reboot the computer. Let's try.

Failed to copy file: third.

To be honest, this is a very dubious development of events. I recommend it as a temporary solution, since it involves completely disabling User Account Control UAC. And, if the previous two options did not work, it’s time to think about whether this file requires something beyond the bounds, and what are its real intentions? So, before you give this file the rights to move around the system and then launch it, first: