HELP! My Music's Gone

aemenleny · 10-06-2004, 07:40 PM

I will become the personal slave of whoever solves this problem for me. So, here's what happenned. I have a Dell 8100 that had major problems so i reformated, first saving all my files and music to back up discs. I reinstalled windows me, installed the programs and drivers, and then upgraded to XP. I tried to load my music back on but now the files are read only. I put a burned disc into another computer with XP and the music files are still there, so mine can not read them now. does anyone know how i can get my computer to properly read the cd's again. please help. ive got about 3000 songs that will be useless. thanks

Lorand · 10-06-2004, 08:01 PM

Your computer won't read that particular cd or any cd?
If only that cd is unreadable then copy those files to another computer and burn another cd with them.

**Praetor** · 10-07-2004, 04:24 AM

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I tried to load my music back on but now the files are read only

In 99.99999999% of cases they are SUPPOSED to be read only. When you restore them, just alter the tag

Lorand · 10-07-2004, 07:56 AM

In XP files from CD to HDD are copied without the read-only attribute.

**Praetor** · 10-07-2004, 02:26 PM

In almost all OSes its like that

Lorand · 10-07-2004, 02:31 PM

Win95 and Win98 isn't like that...

**Praetor** · 10-07-2004, 02:41 PM

A read only file is a read only file....

10-06-2004, 07:40 PM	#1 (permalink)
aemenleny New Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 1	HELP! My Music's Gone I will become the personal slave of whoever solves this problem for me. So, here's what happenned. I have a Dell 8100 that had major problems so i reformated, first saving all my files and music to back up discs. I reinstalled windows me, installed the programs and drivers, and then upgraded to XP. I tried to load my music back on but now the files are read only. I put a burned disc into another computer with XP and the music files are still there, so mine can not read them now. does anyone know how i can get my computer to properly read the cd's again. please help. ive got about 3000 songs that will be useless. thanks

10-07-2004, 02:26 PM	#5 (permalink)
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10-06-2004, 08:01 PM	#2 (permalink)
Lorand VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Bucharest Age: 41 Posts: 3,042	Your computer won't read that particular cd or any cd? If only that cd is unreadable then copy those files to another computer and burn another cd with them.

10-07-2004, 07:56 AM	#4 (permalink)
Lorand VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Bucharest Age: 41 Posts: 3,042	In XP files from CD to HDD are copied without the read-only attribute.

10-07-2004, 02:31 PM	#6 (permalink)
Lorand VIP Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Bucharest Age: 41 Posts: 3,042	Win95 and Win98 isn't like that...