You guys gotta help!

[Josiah 0]

OK. I have two hdd's in my computer, they are both 12.1 GB Quantum Fireball CX's. Today i went to go play some mp3's from a folder in my D drive, and winamp wouldn't load them. I tried to open the folder and it says that the file is corrupted and unreadable. I am gonna kill my computer if i lost all my MP3's. I'm talking 6 GB. The strange part is that all the other files and folders on the drive work fine. PLEASE any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys.

Josiah

[BladeRunner 0]

More information required:

OS?

Have you run a 'Scandisk' type program (Win2k, My computer, right-click D drive select error checking)

Did this error check reveal anything?

Can you copy the files to another folder?

Can you copy the files to the other HD?

[Bursar 0]

I ran into a slightly similar problem. I copied my MP3 files from my C drive to my D drive as I had to do a reinstall of Win2k.

 

When it came to copying the files back again, 2 or 3 had become corrupt. I'm not entirely sure what happened to them. I've run a full scan disk (using Norton Disk Doctor) and haven't found any problems on my drives, so maybe it was just 'one of those things'.

[Sparkhard 0]

Hi, This is Josiah's setup.

 

PIII, 450 slot 1

on board: sound/video/NIC/MoDem

OS. Win2k Pro.

2x 12 gig FAT32

 

ok, he cant do anything to the files because when he clicks on the folder it gives him that message,. he cant get it through DOS (on a win 98 startup disk) either. I have tried doing varios things to acces the folder. It isnt the HDD b/c he can get to other folders on the drive. Unless it could be a bad sector/cluster or something.

 

By the way he is running Norton SYSworks 2001 and he uses SpeedDisk. He is going to try and mirror the drive if all else fails.

 

Sparkhard.

 

P.S. i am his room mate. In case you were wondering how i knew all of this. I went home for the weekend and havent had time to fool with it.

[Ge0ph 0]

My guess is that Speed Disk fried another file system. It seems like when ever I hear of something like this, Speed Disk or Disk Doctor has been used. Chance's are you MP3's are gone and chance's are it's Speed Disk's fault.

 

Just my opinion from experence.

[Josiah 0]

Sparkhard gave you my system specs. I cant run any kind of disk checking, or defraging software because it just says it cant continue because something is corrupted. When i installed Norton System Works I hadn't heard anything bad about it, but lately everywhere i go someone has only bad to say about it. I hope its not nortons fault but i dont think i'll be running speed disk on drive c anytime soon. By the way i can copy the folder wherever i want but it just shows up as empty. I can also rename it but that does no good.

[JimmyK 0]

no offense but only use NAV. NEVER use any of its other crap like norton utillities and system works.

 

It literally melds itself with ur OS. It totally hacks up ur registry first of all, and secondly I feel that over all it slows down ur box because of all that added baggage.

 

Many of us have had to find out the hard way not to use the extra Norton baggage, luckily I avoided it by listening to the forums and anandtech/agn3d/and 3dfiles.

 

Its obviously a hard-drive issue. If I was you I would write off the mp3's, do a low level format and hope that u dont have any permanent/physical damage on any of the platters.

[Josiah 0]

Thanks for all the help guys, I formatted the drive then deleted crappy norton system works. Everything works fine now, but i will forever hold a grudge against Symantec. I can also agree with JimmyK, System works slows down your system, and is generally trash. If you have it I would seriously consider getting rid of it before you get screwed, that and your system will run better.