harpo
06-09-2006, 01:31 PM
Hey all-
I'll try to explain my problem thoroughly but without going on and on. I'm using a Windows PC. My main 80 gig hd which contains the OS and iTunes has always been reliable. But I'm having serious issues with the 250 gig hd I bought to hold my music library.
When I first got iTunes I allowed it to empty out my Music folder, not realizing at the time it would delete all my music. Dumb, I know. I ran a data recovery program and retreived a lot of the mp3's. Some were damaged and named incorrectly, but I figured I could still use most of them.
Most of my mp3's are ripped from the original CD which I own. A few came from less legitimate sources.
Anyway, after about a month of running iTunes, during which time I was constantly ripping more and more music, my 250 gig hd started giving me messages about how some data had become corrupt and I needed to run chkdsk. I ran chkdsk and it was OK for a while, but then it just got more and more corrupted and eventually had to be replaced.
The replacement hd did the exact same thing after a month or so. I replaced it with a Seagate 250 gig. Both previous drives were Western Digital. I figured WD just had a bad run of drives and a new brand would fix it. I was wrong.
I went to a different computer place in town and they told me my IDE controller was bad and I needed a new motherboard. I replaced the motherboard and started over from scratch with a new Seagate 250 gig. After a month I started getting the corrupt data messages again when I'd try to access the music folders through explorer. So I loaded all 15,000 songs into WinAmp and deleted any album that had any song on it that WinAmp had a problem with. Reformatted and reloaded from backups and now after another month the drive went corrupt and says it needs to be formatted again.
I'm at the end of my rope over here. I've tried everything that I and 2 computer repair shops can think of. Do any of you have a suggestion?
Sorry about the length of the post, and thanks for looking. I'm an intermediate level computer user at best, so please don't get too technical. If I didn't give enough info, please let me know.
**EDIT** Wow...73 views and no replys yet. I guess I'm not the only one who's stumped. At this point I'm pretty sure I've got a handfull of corrupt mp3's that are affecting the hard drive(s). Does anyone know of a program or method that would allow me to scan all my mp3's to determine which ones need to be deleted?
I'll try to explain my problem thoroughly but without going on and on. I'm using a Windows PC. My main 80 gig hd which contains the OS and iTunes has always been reliable. But I'm having serious issues with the 250 gig hd I bought to hold my music library.
When I first got iTunes I allowed it to empty out my Music folder, not realizing at the time it would delete all my music. Dumb, I know. I ran a data recovery program and retreived a lot of the mp3's. Some were damaged and named incorrectly, but I figured I could still use most of them.
Most of my mp3's are ripped from the original CD which I own. A few came from less legitimate sources.
Anyway, after about a month of running iTunes, during which time I was constantly ripping more and more music, my 250 gig hd started giving me messages about how some data had become corrupt and I needed to run chkdsk. I ran chkdsk and it was OK for a while, but then it just got more and more corrupted and eventually had to be replaced.
The replacement hd did the exact same thing after a month or so. I replaced it with a Seagate 250 gig. Both previous drives were Western Digital. I figured WD just had a bad run of drives and a new brand would fix it. I was wrong.
I went to a different computer place in town and they told me my IDE controller was bad and I needed a new motherboard. I replaced the motherboard and started over from scratch with a new Seagate 250 gig. After a month I started getting the corrupt data messages again when I'd try to access the music folders through explorer. So I loaded all 15,000 songs into WinAmp and deleted any album that had any song on it that WinAmp had a problem with. Reformatted and reloaded from backups and now after another month the drive went corrupt and says it needs to be formatted again.
I'm at the end of my rope over here. I've tried everything that I and 2 computer repair shops can think of. Do any of you have a suggestion?
Sorry about the length of the post, and thanks for looking. I'm an intermediate level computer user at best, so please don't get too technical. If I didn't give enough info, please let me know.
**EDIT** Wow...73 views and no replys yet. I guess I'm not the only one who's stumped. At this point I'm pretty sure I've got a handfull of corrupt mp3's that are affecting the hard drive(s). Does anyone know of a program or method that would allow me to scan all my mp3's to determine which ones need to be deleted?