First post, by ncmark
Hell all....
I have a question about CD-ROM error correction.
I have taken to scanning some old CD-R disks and re-burning those with higher error rates. I noticed a few of the original ROMs were scratched and scanned those as well. To my dismay, I found some C2 errors on the original disks.
So my question is this - do C2 errors automatically mean corrupted files? I have done some reading on this, and cannot really find a straight answer. Several sites say on a music CD-R the missing bits will be smoother over, but that computer CD-ROM drives have additional error correction and may be able to read the disk.
Can you assume that if you can drag all the files to your hard drive without an error message that the data is intact? Or will it "fix" some of the files without telling you?
Thanks!