tar error unrecoverable?

[Curt Tresenriter]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 16:28:19 +0000
Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24 January 2014 14:36, Curt Tresenriter <ctres at grics.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:22:14 +0000
> > Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 23 January 2014 12:53, Curt Tresenriter <ctres at grics.net> wrote:
> >> > I'm trying to unpack a tar.bz2 file that is failing.
> >> >
> >> > Tried a couple GUI methods then at the command line I said
> >> > tar -xjf 1t0zip.tar.bz2
> >> >
> >> > After several minutes it returned:
> >> >
> >> > bzip2: I/O or other error, bailing out.  Possible reason follows.
> >>
> >> Are you able to simply copy the file to another location?  That
> >> would rule out disk problems.
> >>
> >> Colin
> >>
> >
> >
> > I tried moving it to another hard disc and it threw an IO error
> > after 3 GB.
> 
> Please try to be clear when you provide information.  It is not clear
> whether the error occurred during the copy (in which case the problem
> is nothing to do with tar) or when you then tried to unpack the copy.
> 
> Colin
> 

As I said in my first post, it occurred when I tried to unpack it.
As I said in reply to your suggestion, it happened when I tried to copy
it to another hard disc.
So it happened twice.
Clear?