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BugMagoo

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Media Center crashes after compressing hard drive
« on: October 05, 2006, 10:43:13 pm »

The behavior is this:
  1) open media center
  2) select "playing now"
  3) press "play"
  4) song starts playing
  5) Microsoft Bug Report message apears saying the program performed an illegal operation

I can avoid the crash by doing the following between steps 2 and 3:
  2.5) select the previous song in the playlist.

The only thing I can think of that is different now from a few days ago when ot worked fine, is that I recently compressed drive C: in Windows Explorer

System Info:
Media Center Registered 11.1.196 -- C:\Program Files\J River\Media Center 11\

Microsoft Windows XP 5.1 Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Intel Unknown 97 MHz MMX / Memory: Total - 1047 MB, Free - 565 MB

Internet Explorer: 6.0.2900.2180 / ComCtl32.dll: 5.82.2900 / Shlwapi.dll: 6.0.2900 / Shell32.dll: 6.0.2900 / wnaspi32.dll: N/A
Ripping /   Drive D: SONY    DVD+-RW DW-D56A   Mode:Normal  Type:Auto  Speed:Max
  Digital playback: Yes /  Use YADB: No /  Get cover art: No /  Calc replay gain: Yes /  Copy volume: 32767
  Eject after ripping: Yes /  Play sound after ripping: No 

Burning /  Drive D: SONY     DVD+-RW DW-D56A    Addr: 1:0:0  Speed:24  MaxSpeed:24  BurnProof:Yes
  Test mode: No /  Eject after writing: Yes /  Direct decoding: Yes /  Write CD-Text: Yes
  Use playback settings: No /
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JimH

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Re: Media Center crashes after compressing hard drive
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2006, 05:51:29 pm »

Did you try re-installing?
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Re: Media Center crashes after compressing hard drive
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2006, 01:59:30 am »

yup, no joy.
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Re: Media Center crashes after compressing hard drive
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2006, 06:54:32 am »

So you compressed the drive by right-clicking, and select 'Compress drive to save disk space'?
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Re: Media Center crashes after compressing hard drive
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2006, 10:40:51 pm »

yup.

I have not tried uncompressing the drive yet, because so far this is the only app I am having problems with, and I have a work around, but I could try this if you think it is plausible that the compression is causing the behavior.
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Re: Media Center crashes after compressing hard drive
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2006, 04:59:34 am »

Not sure if that is the issue, but I wouldn't compress a complete drive if this is the system drive. generally speaking, it shouldnt cause issues but you never know. Its most likely slow as a dog though.

I would undo it just to make sure, and compress a select amount of folders if you are really in need of space. If you do, make sure there is enough free space before uncompressing.
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Re: Media Center crashes after compressing hard drive
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2006, 12:17:16 am »

> Intel Unknown 97 MHz MMX

I assume you've recently checked system data integrity


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