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HELP!
In the ongoing saga of my computer problems, the reinstall of XP on my box has not solved my repeated hard drive data corruption problems.
I reinstalled, grabbed all the new patches, downloaded and installed anti-virus, updated and ran it, ran multiple malicious software removal tools, and double checked that all my ports useless services are turned off, and I'm still having frequent problems on boot up requiring extensive use of the repair console, and repeated runnings of CHKDSK.
All of my anti-virus and removal tools swear I'm clean. What's going on? Do I have to do a hard reformat and reinstall? Will that fix the problem?
Also, CHKDSK keeps telling me that my main hard drive appears to have one or more unrecoverable problems.
Sean, that sounds exactly like what happened to my old machine before I had to wipe it and install a fresh version of XP, right down to CHKDSK giving out bizarre unsolvable error messages.
But in good news, burning from the finder TOTALLY preserved the aspect ratio! Woot! (And the bonus I hadn't thought of is because I'm no longer re-encoding everything to MPEG-2, I can fit many more shows on a single disc. The downside is I have no menu, so in the case of the 4 Rome eps I just burned, I have no way of knowing if they're in order or not before I watch them. Hopefully they were laid down alphabetically.)
Sean, it sounds like you may have a few bad blocks on that drive. If that is the case then a reformat really is the best thing since it should lock out any bad blocks.
Feh. Thanks guys. I'm just pissed about the unrecoverable music that only ever existed digitally. I have to buy it all over again.
Jessica, I just burned two widescreen BSG episodes to a DVD and had no issues. I had created a disk image weeks ago using iDVD and burned it using disk utility. (I have a different Philips model, however, so it could be a player setting.)
ETA: Though you seem to have already solved your problem.
If the machine is still somewhat bootable bring it over. You can back the music up to one of my servers, and then reformat and copy the music back.
Unfortunately, the sector(s) with the music on it appears to be one of the corrupt ones. Ever since the repair, I've been unable to access the folders with my previous documents and desktop data, which includes the old My Music folder, where the music resided. The folder properties that pop up on mouseover say that the folders are empty, but trying to open them gets an access denied error.
I fear the music is already gone.
Jon, this is why I ended up consolidating my library. It was easier to let iTunes search my hard drive and copy everything to the iTunes folder rather than manually remind it where every MP3 was.
My library is already consolidated. iTunes has arbitrarily decided that it doesn't know where some of the songs in the consolidated library are.
Sometimes a bad power supply can make disks appear to have bad blocks.
Sometimes a bad power supply can make disks appear to have bad blocks.
Hmm... I suppose it's possible, but this power supply was bought new in response to the old one crapping out.
