LOST about 10 000 SONGS

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underworlddon

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Sup guyss i am new here.. and i am a Dj so ofcourse i need a lot of SONgs i had about 25 000 songs on my LAptop so today i went n bought a external hd 120GB n i loaded all da songs n what happend is about 10 000 SONGs says its all Corrupted AND non of DEm work.. Can anyone tell me WHY it HAPPENED wat should i do or somthing thankxx im so pissed I jus lost 10 000 Songs
 
Well I hope we can assume these are all legal songs... ANYWAY, It depends how you tried to copy them. Did you COPY from your main Laptop HD to your External HD? Or did you MOVE them? Are you sure they are not still on the original disk? And which drive had the corrupted files on it?
 
When you copied them from the laptop onto the external drive the copying process probably saw a glitch there resulting in those files being incomplete. The best thing to do there is examine the total on the laptop, make the new drive is properly partitioned and formatted, and try recopying those 10,000 you found incomplete especially if you were on battery power at the time.

If you deleted them off of the drive in the laptop you are stuck there. But if they are safe there verify the file integrity after any attempt at recopying to the 120gb.
 
well to be honest Some Files Works FIne and Some File IS jus corrupted and yes At time i did COPy n paste and at time i Draged it.. Is there supose to be a PROPER way To do soo.. please let me know.. And No i have Nothing on mY laptop after i transfered it i deleted everythin from my laptop, do u think there might be somthing wrong with the external HD it self??
 
It sounds more like an impartial copy of those files. That is a common problem when trying to move a large amount of files at one time. Next time try copying or moving with a smaller amount. A bad drive would have seen far more files lost if it was loaded with bad sectors. After the files were copied where did you keep the external drive? Was it placed near any magnetic sources like electronic devices? An lectromagnetic field would account for the problem seen with that amount of files. The platters in a drive are magnetic surfaces used for storage.
 
We are at a crossroad.

If you 'Moved' the files onto your external HDD, ----> Game over

If you copied, simply try again. If you screwed up your externall HDD give it a format and you should be good to go!


Good luck - I know how PAINFUL it is to lose data
 
Angel.of.Death said:
We are at a crossroad.

If you 'Moved' the files onto your external HDD, ----> Game over

If you copied, simply try again. If you screwed up your externall HDD give it a format and you should be good to go!


Good luck - I know how PAINFUL it is to lose data
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underworlddon wiped the drive in the laptop. Those files are long gone now unless he can use a recovery tool there. Got any freewares to recommend? like the one found at http://tips.vlaurie.com/2006/free-undelete-program/
 
It won't hurt to try and recover at least some of the deleted files. There are different recovery tools available for this. The one at the link there is a freeware but even if using the 30day trial on a retail version works you would have your files back. If a recovery tool fails you haven't lost anything more then you already have.
 
PC eye said:
It won't hurt to try and recover at least some of the deleted files. There are different recovery tools available for this. The one at the link there is a freeware but even if using the 30day trial on a retail version works you would have your files back. If a recovery tool fails you haven't lost anything more then you already have.
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Couldnt have said it better myself... Trial Versions are useless. As someone pointed out, they locate the file, then say: "Buy me!"... Bu it doesnt hurt to try
 
this is a learning experience, with the amount of data you had and its value, should of stayed in both places until a third HD was purchased to back it up to...just my .02, good luck however with the freeware
 
sharkm87 said:
this is a learning experience, with the amount of data you had and its value, should of stayed in both places until a third HD was purchased to back it up to...just my .02, good luck however with the freeware
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You live and learn fast with computers. When you have a large collection of files that can't simply be replaced on a moment's notice you learn how to create backups on removable media as well as spare drives if you have them. With any form of media files are verified for integrity after they are moved or copied to another location or drive. You never delete the originals until you know the copied files are intact.
 
PC eye said:
You live and learn fast with computers. When you have a large collection of files that can't simply be replaced on a moment's notice you learn how to create backups on removable media as well as spare drives if you have them. With any form of media files are verified for integrity after they are moved or copied to another location or drive. You never delete the originals until you know the copied files are intact.
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Exactly. No pain, no gain. But unfortunately, you learnt the hard way. Now you know to backup your songs onto an ipod, an External HDD or simply a CD...

Good luck in your future endeavours.

PS have you tried the recovery tool? You never know you might get some of the songs back!
 
One thing I found when trying to copy a good number of files like mp3s or wav files from one drive to another was the loss of a few at times. An mp3 or wav even mpeg II file wouldn't be complete. Even when you took wavs and bmps to burn on cd-rs you would get some that were no good.

This is one reason data dvds and dvd-rws come in handy where you can make more then one copy of a large number of files in case some are lost or damaged in some way.
 
Hey my hard drive that i bought 2 weeks ago fell off my desk this morning and i lost over 15000 songs. Luckily I had them saved somewhere else. With this being said, make sure you always back your stuff up. Especially as a DJ using scratch live or final scratch. Your career could come to an end quick.
 
Gee?! I'm so glad! I'm so glad! for those "data dvds" you can burn to backup your important stuff free of any virus/malware infections... and of course the feeling of disaster you must have felt when that happened! "Frequent Backups" is the big word there BuddyLee! along with caution when handling hardwares. I run two not one drive here always in the event that something...?
 
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