tar error unrecoverable?

[Colin Law]

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