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| Thread ID: 106125 | 2009-12-27 19:39:00 | All my music files are gone! | stumpys (12625) | Press F1 |
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| 843670 | 2009-12-27 19:39:00 | I save all of my music files to a seperate drive on my computer - E: drive Late yesterday afternoon I updated a mates Garmin on my computer, other than that I run only my own products on my computer. This morning when surfing a windows pop up kept coming up in the system tray stating "Windows cannot read E:$M this file may be corrupt (blah blah blah). I know for a fact that I have no such file name in my E: drive. Upon opening my computer it shows my E: drive as having no disk size/free space etc despite it being a 80gb hard drive. The hard drive properties also shows 0 bytes available and 0 bytes free. iTunes cannot find a single one of the media files that was on this drive. I fear that the Garmin may have infected my computer with a virus as they do have an internal memory and can hold files. This Garmin did have several folders on it that are not on my Garmin. I run windows XP sp3 and my anti-spyware/firewall is a licenced AVG Security 3-pack. Please help as I would hate to think all of my music has been deleted I just think that there is a virus making it impossible to "see" my music. |
stumpys (12625) | ||
| 843671 | 2009-12-27 19:48:00 | Did you scan the hdd? And the hdd windows is on? | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 843672 | 2009-12-27 19:58:00 | It sounds like you might of accidentally erased, formatted(someone will stick the correct word in) your E drive, instead of doing something to the garmin | plod (107) | ||
| 843673 | 2009-12-27 20:51:00 | Try accessing the external HDD on a different computer? | Renmoo (66) | ||
| 843674 | 2009-12-28 03:05:00 | Have been out for the day. On my return the full scan of my computer is done - no infections found. On trying to access the E: the following error prompt comes up - E/: is not accessable. File or directory is corrupted and unreadable. I doubt I have formatted the E: drive myself as the Garmin was effectively only a storage device and I was only uploading the most current mapset for the device via Mapsource. Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have "lost" over 50gb of music! UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Looking at my C: drive I see that its available space is now 252gb and all of my E: drive including the "E:" tag itself has copied over to C:. How do I remake my E: drive to I just copy the music over to the now empty E: drive or will this stuff things up? |
stumpys (12625) | ||
| 843675 | 2009-12-28 04:20:00 | Its possible the E: drive had bad sectors or some other sort of failure. BUT if this was the case, it will fail again - I'd backup the music to another source right away. External drive for example. What you "should" be able to do, is right click the E: drive, format it - then copy the music from the "moved" folder back to the E: drive. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 843676 | 2009-12-28 09:25:00 | Its possible the E: drive had bad sectors or some other sort of failure. BUT if this was the case, it will fail again - I'd backup the music to another source right away. External drive for example. What you "should" be able to do, is right click the E: drive, format it - then copy the music from the "moved" folder back to the E: drive. Having backed up/coppied all the req data to another place. Would it not be a little safer/better to delete the E: drive/partition. Then completly recreate and formatt a "new E:" drive/partition. Removing "hopfully' the error that appears to have entered the "partiton table":2cents: |
angry (15305) | ||
| 843677 | 2009-12-28 17:18:00 | THe unusual thing is that it is not a partioned drive but two (2) independant hard drives in the computer. One is a 80gb hard drive (C:) running all of my programme files etc the other is a 160 gb (E:) drive called "store" that holds all of my media files. E: is unreadable now but on exploring the C: drive it has increased its total space/size to 240gb and now has a folder on it called E/store. WTF I am a computer dummy and in mo way had a tutu with any settings etc. Hell I only use my computer for music/email and internet |
stumpys (12625) | ||
| 843678 | 2009-12-28 19:13:00 | Hi, Frankly, I'm not familiar with Garmins, and can't be bothered to research them, but just want to float an idea. Perhaps the Garmin has disrupted your drive letter assignments, with the Garmin having been assigned E:, and the drive that was E: now under some other letter. This happens easily with memory sticks too, particularly if they are plugged in at the time the computer is turned on. My suggestion: Turn off completely (not hibernate or suspend or log off, but full shutdown OFF). While it's off, double-check the plugs and cables to yuor E drive. Remove all memory sticks, Garmins and other external storage devices. Fire it up again and hope! |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 843679 | 2009-12-30 09:25:00 | Very strange that the C: drive now seems to be the size of the combined C: & E: drives. Personally, I wouldn't format the E: drive yet. As I see it, your first priority is to copy the music to an external USB drive as a backup (assuming the music files are usable). And copy anything else of value, as well! After that, try to get to the bottom of the real problem. |
linw (53) | ||
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