Reducer error occurs - copy file fails from D to C while running recovery cd in windows 8,64 bit.

Sir I bought a new hp envy 15 j049tx on 25 October 2013 and it stopped working on 29 october 2013.Whrn I opened the laptop a blue screen appears written that "Your pc ran into an error and we are restarting for you. The laptop restarts and the same process keeps going on.
I told the Hp customer support, they asked me to run hard drive and memory tests. Both hard drive and memory test came out PASSED(both quick and extensive tests). Then they ordered hp recovery discs. When i received it while running the 1st cd an error came with label REDUCER-copy file failed from D... to C.... They then sent a technician who said that the recovery cd are faulty. Its Been a month and the problem still persists. They have ordered a new set of recovery cd. I hope to receive them by 22.I am very much worried. Its windows 8,64 bits os. Please reply. Is it recovery cd problem? Please tell what to do?

anyone found the fix for this?

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I get the above error message when trying to copy in my library into itunes. Is there a log file generated somewhere that says what this file is, or is there some way of locating it?

found a program that should locate the possible trouble here:
http://www.dcsoft.com/products/longff/longff.htm
Just leaves the question really of what was decided too long by itunes.

Moving library to external hard drive and get the error "Copying files failed. The disk could not be read from or written to"

Hello,
I'm moving my library to an external hard drive.
I've made sure to use the 'Keep iTunes Media Folder Organized' option when pointing to the new library location.
I select 'File'->'Library'->'Organize Library', I select to 'Consolidate Files', click 'OK' and get ther error message "Copying files failed. The disk could not be read from or written to".
I've read elsewhere that there may be a corrupted file that I need to sequester somehow and perhaps add it back however I'm not certain how I can locate that file because the status window doesn't indicate which file it's attempting to transfer when the error appears.
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OK I figured it out!
It was a dodgy file....I sorted the file folders by date, and as it turned out within the "compilations" folder there was a CD where only about half the tracks seemed to have been copied over. Could not have identified this simply from the time indicated on the finder folder sort, because there were several CDs copied over in the that same minute.
I went back to the original itunes folder, deleted all the files from that CD in itunes, then also deleted all those files from the original disk and the target disk.
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Copy file fails hp sent recovery discs Windows 7

I have been trying to solve this for a month now and am at the end of my tether.
I am now on my third set of recovery discs from HP and all have the same problem. I insert disc 1 as instructed to on the support forum. It runs through
Reformatting the windows partition of the hard drive - tick
Copying files required to restore the hard drive - tick
And immediately as that finishes, that window comes up :
Reducer
Copy file fails
From:E:\PRELOAD\BASE.SWM
To:C:\RM\Image\BASE.SWM
Press OK to retry
ALL three sets of discs have the same out come.
What the heck is going on?
I am so sick of this.
Have read some other posts with similar problems but can't seem to work out the solution. I do not have an external hard drive I can use...only the laptop that I am trying to fix. (G6-1305sa)
Any help? It also doesn't help when HP support is only open on the phones until 5.30 Monday to Friday. I am at work so can't call. So frustrating....
Aaaarrrrrgggghhhhh
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Hi Belj,
Thank you for visiting the HP Support Forums and Welcome. I have read your thread on your HP Pavilion g6-1305sa Notebook and not able to restore Windows. If the HDD is faulty this might cause the restore not to go well. You might try to run a hardware test. Please note remove any and all USB devices, and remove memory cards from the card reader slot. Disconnect all non-essential devices. Is this the original HDD? Have you replaced any other parts? Have you tried to do a clean install of Windows 7. Try running sfc /scannow would scan your system for errors at the command prompt. You can get to the command prompt by clicking F11 at startup. You could check this Microsoft document on system recovery options.
Hope this is a help.
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Recovery Disk "Copy File Fail"

Equipment: HP Notebook G56-WM129
Operating system: Windows 7 64 bit Home Premium edition
Issue:
HDD Crashed, after 1 year and 1 month of use the hard drive up and quit working, the computer doesn't even recognize that it is installed. Ran the test from BIOS and it confirmed that I have a dead drive. Unplugged cleaned and repluged connection cable produced the same results. A dead Drive. Now that we have determined that the drive is dead, inoperable, and unusable we'll move on to the part where my other issue lies.
To replace the HDD I purchased a new 60Gb SSD. (More expensive than a HHD, but is supposed to be awesome on speed) Went with the 60 Gig because it is costly and I didn't know at the time Windows 7 uses 25 Gb's of space (WOW).
I never created any recovery disc, so I purchased a set from this website using my computers information.  I went ahead and decided to upgrade my ram at this time as well from 3 Gb/s to 8Gb/s.   All the stuff came in and I was excited to say the least. New toys and all, just like Christmas.
I put the new SSD and RAM in, boot up the computer the BIOS recognized them both (Great). I put in the 1st recover disk and proceeded to boot from it. The program runs and wants me to reformat drive (enter no ends the program). So, I enter yes. Reformatting goes quickly and moves on to the next phase of copying the files. Then I get the error:
Pop up box appears with "Reducer" as the title and tells me
          COPY FILE FAILS
From D:\PRELOAD\BASE.WIM
TO: C:\RM\IMAGE\BASE.WIM
Press enter to retry.
Pressing enter does absolutely no good (Nothing happens, pressed it a lot). The disc won't eject and the only thing I can do is hold in the power button until the computer shuts down. I power the CPU back up, it says it is starting windows and it starts the process all over to Error on the same thing at the same spot. 0% Progress.
After several hours of looking on the boards, I see various people have the same problem, Only once did I see someone have a solution, but it didn't work for me. It had me follow a link to a destination on HP to download a bootable disk that loaded and showed a picture of 3 circles with no direction on what to do. I finally saw where I am supposed to eject the disc power it down, start it up with the recovery disc. But this just leads me back to the issue of FILE COPY FAILs.
I borrowed a copy of Windows 7 (64 bit Home Premium) from a friend and it loaded flawlessly, had me up and running in no time.
But I only have the code that came with my HP and it would not work to activate this windows. So, I popped the recovery disc back in hoping that all will go well since I have successfully installed Windows. However, I am back to my original issue and really don't want to have to spend another $200 on an OS when I am supposed to have one and have paid for the Recovery disk from HP.
From my understanding, this is not a Microsoft issue, but a HP issue.

Usually replacing the hdd with one that is smaller than the original will cause Recovery to fail.A work-around that many use to replace with an SSD is to use Imaging software to make an Image of the hdd to restore to the SSD. The Imaging software must be one that has capabilty to shrink the image to a smaller hdd/partition. That is the one flaw in my favorite Imaging app,Macrium. I think Paragon Backup has the capabity to shrink, and possibly (not free) Acronis True Image. I have also used Disk Management in Windows 7 to shrink the C: partition before Imaging to allow it to be restored to a smaller hdd or partition. Any of these would require a working SATA hdd to install Win 7 on to do the Imaging.
As for the alternate install of Windows 7, you can usually get it activated using your key and the phone activation method. Tips HERE
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ITunes v10.6.1.7 "Copying files failed. The File name was invalid or too long."

I'm trying to organize my music files using iTunes 10.6.1.7 and I keep getting the error message "Copying files failed. The File name was invalid or too long."
I've got music folders by artist in both the iTunes Music folder and the iTunes Media/Music folder. When I add certain files by drag/drop they sometimes get lost and I don't want that to happen anymore. I used to just consolidate my music files using the File/Library/Organize Library option and that worked, however now when I do that, I get the error message.
I'm a novice and the only online stuff I see is both confusing and refers to earlier versions of iTunes.
My concern is that I have heard that people lose entire libraries of their music when they trry to fix things like this and I don't want that. If this is of any importance, I have several files called iTunes library and temp library. I have no idea what that all means but I'm scared to death of it.
Also, I can't get to the "re-organize library" link at all. It won't let me.
One thing that be of some interest is that when I pull up the properties of the music and media/music files they are marked "read only" I'm also afraid to touch that!
Please help and please know that I am a dummy. Be kind and be clear. Step by step would be great, with images even better. Thanks.

Perhaps nobody knows the answer? We're fellow users here answering questions in our free time when we think we've something useful to contribute.
You can choose to *Consolidate selected tracks* with a right-click menu. Perhaps if you can identify a specific track that won't consolidate and examine the full path to the file & the path that iTunes would create when it consolidates the problem might become apparent. For example iTunes may not be able to move files if the source or destination path length exceeds 255 characters.
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Copy File Fails during Recovery on Pavilion DV6 Windows 7

I need help! I have a Pavilion DV6 with Windows 7, my hard drive died so I bought a new one, it is just like the one that died. I ordered the recovery discs from HP When it gets to 98% on the 2nd disc I get the following message
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If you can read the 25 character Microsoft Windows 7 license key attached to bottom of laptop , you can download a Windows 7 ISO file to burn to a DVD for the version that is listed on the Microsoft COA sticker.
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ITunes library consolidation error: "Copying files failed. An unknown error occurred (-50)."

My iTunes library has outgrown the HDD on my iMac, so I've started to migrate it over to a Synology NAS. The iTunes Media folder is set to the NAS, but when I attempt to consolidate the library the operation fails each time with the error: "Copying files failed. An unknown error occurred (-50).
I have found this references to this error in the communities from Windows users, but I only use Macs.

Just trying to give this topic a poke as I am having a similar issue.
I am rebuilding my library that was on an external drive. I had a backup of much of the files, but not a direct backup of the iTunes media folder, as well I am now moving it to a new iTunes Media directory on a Synology 1813+ NAS running DSM 4.3 vs. a USB attached drive.
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So far iTunes has been able to locate most of the music files through its own processes. Once it completed that process I then initiated "Consolidate files" to move the found files to the new iTunes Media directory on the new NAS.
I am led to believe that the issue is with a specific file that causes the copy process to stop, but I don't know how to capture what file it might be.
I am not seeing anything relevent in the console log.
Hoping someone can throw me some ideas...
iTunes 11.1.2 (32) - iMac 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4GB RAM - OS X 10.8.5

Copying files failed. An unknown error occurred (-50)

I currently have a PC (Samsung Q330 running Windows 7) and I am getting a Macbook Pro in a few days! Therefore I am transferring my iTunes (10.6) library to an external hardrive (Hitachi X250). While I was doing this I received an error message that read “Copying files failed. An unknown error occurred (-50)”. Therefore I was wondering, how the heck do I fix this???
What I have done.
I have gone in to “Advance Preferences”.
I have changed the “iTunes Media folder location” to my external hardrive.
I have the following two option selected “Keep iTunes Media folder organized” and “Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to library”.
Then I go to File> Library> Organize Library. Then I select “Consolidate files” then I press the “OK” button.
Then about half way in or so I get a pop up that reads “Copying files failed. An unknown error has occurred (-50).
As you can see iTunes is not working. Could anyone help me???
Thanks in advance, Donald Louch!

Hmm... you may find iTunes is still connected to some files in the original location rather than the new one. You can check with my script Unconsolidated. If that is the case the script ConsolidateByMoving ought to switch the connection to a file already in the correct place however I'm currently working on a new build so the behaviour of the live version might be slightly different.
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HT1449 copying files failed. the disk could not be read from or written to.

Im moving my iTunes to an external hard drive. Its moved about half already and Im now getting this error. I have no idea what file its getting stuck on so I cant remove that file. When I restart it it will say preparing to copy then I get the error right away. I dont want to delete the extrenal and start over if I dont have to.

Ive already changed the location for my itunes media to my extrenal hard drive so when i click to consolidate files Im getting the error
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I HAVE COMPLETED SEVERAL IMOVIES AND FINALIZED JUST FINE. NOW I GET THE FOLLOWING MESSAGE FROM MY LATEST PROJECT. "The project could not be prepared for publishing because an error occurred. (File already open with write permission)"! What is going on

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Hi
Error -49 opWrErr File already open with write permission
Trash the preference files while application is NOT Running.
Easiest way to find out if this is the problem is by:
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If it now works OK - then 99.9% the problem is iMovie pref. file that needs to be trashed.
from Karsten Schlüter
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I'm getting error "copying files failed. the required file is in use". How do I find the file?

I've found this question is elswhere but no answers. I'm trying to consolidate my library to an external hard drive since I'm pretty sure my current drive is about to fail. The entire process has taken me days due to one error or another. This is my most recent error and so far there is no way around it since it does not show me what file is in use.
Help?

I used "Carbon Copy Cloner" to copy my library from one external disk to another.
The "library" consists of a bunch of files and folders (see links at end). You don't need CCC to copy it, just drag the whole iTunes folder in your Home > Music from one drive to the other.
I pointed my iTunes library to the new location under iTunes preferences.
No, don't do it with preferences. Once you have moved the folder as above, start iTunes with the option key held down and guide it to the library.itl file on the new drive. This is assuming you have been using iTunes's default settings and haven't been managing your media yourself.
I used iTunes to "Consolidate Library" to verify that all files had been moved.
Okay, in doing that you have moved just your media to the new drive but left all your other library files on the old drive.
iTunes succesfully copied/re-attached a lot of files before giving me the error that the disk could not be read or written to.
Try it with my method.
I began to troubleshoot the hard drive by checking the cables and scanning for errors.
This disk checked out fine.
I identified the failure and subsequent error was due to corrupted files.
I watched the consolidation process and was able to see which file it was trying to copy before it errored out.
I deleted the corrupted file and restarted the process (I repeated this numerous times).
When the process seemed to be just about over, I got the error "Copying files failed. The required file is in use."
I'm sure this is likely another corrupted file, however, it happens so fast that I have no way to identify what file is causing the problem. I tried making sure no other processes were running and no other windows or media players were open. I also tried to look for an error log but was unsuccessful.
Any ideas?
Disk Utility will scan for a corrupt directory but I don't think it works on the file level if it is a single file that was corrupted. I know I have seen Carbon Copy Cloner pick up on single file error when I had one sitting on a bad sector of a drive several years ago. If you can identify the corrupt file this way then you will have to use a backup copy since it is unlikely it can be rescued.
If you have Diskwarrior it has a file check utility.
You have, of course, restarted your computer before doing all this, and keep other computer activity to a minimum (don't play music while copying the files and don't use other applications that coupld potential be trying to get access to your files)?
What are all those iTunes files? - http://www.macworld.com/article/139974/2009/04/itunes_files.html
iTunes 9 [and later]: Understanding iTunes Media Organization - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3847

Copy File Fails error

I have a Pavilion dm4 and it is telling me that my Hard Drive is going to fail.
The original operating system was Windows 7 (64bit), but I 'upgraded' to Windows 8
I have backed up everything on an external hard drive
I purchased a new hard drive: WD Mainstream 500GB SATA 3
I ordered the system recovery disks from HP
Durning recovery I keep getting a 'Copy FIle Fails' error about half way through disk 2 of 3
I have tried several times and it keeps getting stuck
Someone suggested that it might be a BIOS problem, but I don't know how to navigate this tool. ( I have version F.26 I think)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hello BvinR,
I understand you are getting a "'Copy FIle Fails" error on the second disc when you are trying to recover after a failed hard drive. I have checked the HP Pavilion dm4 Entertainment PC Maintenance and Service Guideand on page 2 it lists a 500 GB, 7200 rpm hard drive as compatible with your system. I am more inclined to believe there is something wrong with the recovery disc. If this is the case I would encourage you to contact HP technical support to see about getting the second disc replaced. Be sure to explain to them as you did here. Below is the contact links for HP Technical Support if you need them.
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HT1449 Help! This all runs quite smoothly until i get to 'consolidate library'. Then, tracks start copying, then stop followed by a pop up saying 'Copying files failed. The disc could not be read from or written to.' Any suggestions? Thank you!

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I had similar problems, it was a nightmare and on a 3 month ipod too!. I use a Powerbook G4 at home and a G5 at work - both were returning the same problems. so I sent it off to apple, they quickly sent it back saying there was nothing wrong with and it didn't need to be repaired. I tried it again and the same problems occurred "disc cannot be written to or read from." I could copy 20 songs onto it at the very most. A couple of guys at my work suggested updating it on a PC, then adding tunes via my mac as normal - guess what!? it works a treat!?. How ridiculous is that!? an Apple product works best on a PC. these generations of ipods are obviously designed to work best on Intel based Macs. What is wrong Apple? are you abandoning the G-generation!? still, atleast my ipod works for now - it will prove a problem when I have to update the iPod's software since I don't own a PC or an intel-based Mac.

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Reducer error occurs - copy file fails from D to C while running recovery cd in windows 8,64 bit.

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