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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: pipsqueak on April 06, 2004, 07:50:20 pm
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Okay so my music folder says:
"\\music not accessible
the file or directory is corrupted or unreadable"
any ideas on how to fix this (while saving data)?
pip
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See if you can access the same files from Windows Explorer.
If not, check the network. Sometimes resetting the router and computers helps.
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matt
thanks for the reply. things have gotten worse since my last message :'(
basically this is a firewire external hard disk attached to my machine. at first i couldnt access 1 folder, now its the entire drive. when i click on the icon in windows explorer it either says "invalid parameter" or "drive or files corrupt" depending on how many times ive reset the machine.
the bizarre thing is i can still see it in explorer and under 'manage' it says the disk is healthy
do i have any options (cheap ones that is) in terms of saving the device?
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What kind of motherboard are you running on? What I'm looking for is the chipset it uses. I had an issue with a firewire drive and updating the Intel drivers for the chipset did the trick.
If not that and you are certain the firewire connection is fine, then a chkdsk is your best hope.
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GHammer
its nothing to do with the motherboard (the drive is no longer recognised by friends pc's either).
i cant even get to it to do chkdsk
its currently cooling in the freezer! i remember reading that sometimes cooling the drive to below 20F can help. otherwise im returning it and going through the painful process of reripping 180 gigs of data
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Can you take the drive out of the enclosure and plug it in via IDE cables? If so, you might try that. I have an external drive but it is just a normal IDE drive in a USB cabled enclosure.
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its currently cooling in the freezer! i remember reading that sometimes cooling the drive to below 20F can help.
That actually worked for me one time. I was able to get everything off the drive once it was cool.