MS-Windows: Corrupted Data??

[realg187]

K heres what happened i brought my USB HD to the family PC upsaitrs and ripeed 2 CDs and played some of my WMA files, I chaged the drive letter and when I went back to MY PC the while i was playing the ripeed WMAs it stoped and both my CDs [even the one I wasnt listening too] that I just ripped went corrrupt, it shows BS, I can CHKdsk and said not to convert the dfolder to a file, and they were gone, also someo of the aobum art media platyer wrote/read, went gone.

Luckily all I had to to was repir the CDs and reget the album art, lucky nothing else [that I noticed} was gone, only sum of the files I used on the family PC what cuased this??

I mapped the my docs fodler to my USB Hd and changed the drive letter while it was playing [I think it was playing and/or ripping]

Thats windows for ya!!!

[realg187]

Please help!

[drewrockshard]

Alright - so this i a Windows issue? Not Linux? Just getting my berrings straight...

Usually changing things in windows while a process is currently running ususally messes things up. For whatever reasons you changed your drive letter, I do not know why, but it's almost always unnecessary.

WindowsXP ... actually Windows 2000 for that matter made it alot easier to move files around while they were being used, such as a text file open up and then moving it to another folder; it would recognize that move with no issues.

Windows Media Player is different, and I have to say I don't really use Windows MP that much and thus I do not know exactly why this happened, but I'm sure its because you decided to change the drive letter. It confuses windows, and it doesn't know what to do.

If you ever want to do that again, make sure you unplug the USB drive (after closing all the files and such that are in use by it - or else you might get a delayed write failed error and lose data) and then plug it back in. Don't open any files. Then change the drive letter and then mess around with your drive. Also, your system should recognize it as the new drive letter on the system now. You might have to make sure that you plug it into the exact USB slot - not always, but sometimes it forgets.

[realg187]

I like WMPs CDDB...

I cahged it cuz the My Docs fodler was there, and I made an icons mapped to "Drive X" and E didint show. I think is was just a minor file system things, I was scared sh!tless cuzs my Previous USB HD had a DWF while defragging, I now use it as a backup for this one... But its done, I'll have to be more careful when changing drive letters...