[eirlys_serene]

I recently completed several months worth of work. I ripped every single cd and dvd I owned onto an 80 gig hard drive. I put them all in one folder to start with.. then all at once, I seperated them all by genre and artist. Well, I right clicked and went to properties to see how many files I had made. While it was counting gigs upon gigs of files.. I got an error message. (I don't remember what it was). I clicked ok and tried to go back to my slave drive where I had put the files.. The entire drive was not there anymore. I thought it had crashed.

I had my husband look at it and he wiggled the cables connected to the now non-existant around a bit with the computer off and turned it back on. I had simply tried restarting it and it didn't work. But whatever he did worked. My drive was back.

I went to access those files that I had moved and not a single one of them work anymore. When I click on it to play, winamp pops up and does nothing. The progress bar that shows how far along you are in the movie or song does not show up. With Media Player, it says that I cannot access the files. I tried deleting them and it gives me the "access denied, please make sure disk is not full or write protected" message.

Could someone possibly tell me how to fix this? I'd rather not lose all that music and video.. it was alot of figuring out and alot of work for me. I'd love to be able to play them again. I should have left well enough alone..