sooo yes the music is different drive it was imported Edrive and now its looking for it on the cdrive???
is that right?
what do i do- delete it all and import it a diff way?
The short answer here is that this really shouldn't happen and you should just kick your computer until it doesn't anymore.
Now, the long answer...
The following is what I have used to successfully get around whatever automagic Windows uses to assign drive letters.
You should note that I DO NOT know anything specific about your system apart from what you've told me. I can't be sure this will work and will not mess up other programs.
But from what you've told me I think it will work and is what I've done myself. If you know of any other programs that access the drive though, be sure that you can take measures to point them to a new drive letter. This shouldn't be a big deal, since the drive letter is already switching on you. Alright, long but important rant over.
Directions, begin:
- Plug in your external drive.
- Right-Click "My Computer", select "Manage".
- In the left-hand pane, go to Storage > Disk Management
- Right-Click your external drive.
- Choose "Change Drive Letter and Paths for <your external drive>"
- Click "Change"
- Choose "Assign the following..." bullet.
- Now pick a letter further on in the alphabet. Maybe "M" for music or media.
- Press OK and agree to whatever warnings and prompts Windows throws at you.
- Restart your computer, then verify that the external drive letter is whatever you have chosen.
- Go to the "lost" files in Media Center.
- Delete them from the library, but do not send them to the Recycling Bin or delete them from the file system. (Choose in the dialog box that shows up after you press delete.)
- Now import the songs from your external drive again.
Additionally, in Media Center (if you use auto-import) you should go to Options > Library & Folders > Auto-Import > Configure Auto-Import. Select the external drive. At the bottom set "Fix broken links" to "No".
That should keep your library in working order.