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I’ve started getting errors on some large files (seemingly random) that I copy to my 5.5G 40GB iPod.  (They’re .tivo files from my Tivo so I can watch shows on another computer, and my iPod is FAT32 used only with Windows.)

The files will copy without error, but then when I try to copy them off the iPod, on one system I’ll get a “cyclical redundancy check” error, and on another in the same spot with the same file I’ll get “Cannot copy <name of file>: The parameter is incorrect.

It seems to be happening just recently, and randomly.  Maybe I’ll copy 8 shows over, and only one will give me that error.

When I get the error, the iPod’s disk activity indicator will have stopped spinning.  It’s like it’s quit trying to transfer anything.  I’ll get errors for a short while after that if I try to access anything on disc, but then it’s like the iPod wakes up again, the disc spins back up, and my computer can access files again.

I’ve restored my iPod recently, and run a basic check on the disk using Windows’ built-in disk utility.

Any other ideas what’s going wrong?  Nothing’s changed about my systems since this started yesterday.