How to avoid damage to ISO archives?

Posted by TMRW on Super User See other posts from Super User or by TMRW
Published on 2010-12-30T08:21:30Z Indexed on 2010/12/30 8:57 UTC
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So had a problem where a 16GB ISO was damaged(likely my own fault using standard windows copy dialog instead of proper copy tool like robocopy with verification turned on).

It took several hours but i managed to restore the ISO(basicly i rebuilt the damaged parts and recompiled).Namely some .rar archives inside it were unreadable but the ISO itself was readable.

So im wondering how can i further protect something like this from happening again?.Obviously proper copy tool but mayble something else?.Perhaps set as "read only" could help?.I generally don't move these files a lot and if i need to acces them then it's only for opening/extracting.

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