Copied Mp3 and avi.. now they won't work. Help please

eirlys_serene · #1 06-12-2005, 08:14 PM

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..

Jammin19840 · #2 06-13-2005, 09:51 PM

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

eirlys_serene · #3 06-13-2005, 10:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jammin19840

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

I tried this yesterday.

I use xp home, so I had to go into safe mode to access the security tab. I did all of this and from safe mode, it made me able to delete the files. However, they still did not play. I booted back into regular windows and I was not able to delete them again.. and of course, they still wouldnt play.

This is so frustrating.. I'm wondering if I should give up on all these files and just delete them in safe mode. I really don't want to do that though.. I want to be able to play them. Some are from old scratched cd's that I managed to squeeze a bit more life out of them to rip them.

eirlys_serene · #4 06-20-2005, 12:12 AM

I hate to be one to bump threads.. but I really need the help, if you please

Farmall · #5 08-30-2006, 04:51 AM

Have you thought about simply adding or updating codecs? It may work, also, you say these are on a totaly new hard drive? Was it empty when you added the songs? Did you format it through my computer then do a drag and drop to it? Also, and I experienced this, if you have too much data, (Not sure what too much is, but over 90% full) on a slave storage HD, you'll get read errors and have to close explorer.

threatkiller · #6 09-08-2006, 03:51 PM

okay you could try using total video convertor.http://www.veffect.com/total-video-converter/tvc.exe
it is only a trial but it will work! i know they are not videos but you can choose those and open in the convertor and if it says on the right cannot oen you are screwed, but if it gives the song info, when it asks to convert to what format press mp3 then it will say mp3 or mp2 do mp3 and it will make it as good as new.