Well this is a very very odd problem, and im hoping for an answer other than you're going to have to reformat becuase im am going to loose a lot of stuff. So here goes...I had a 60gb, and a 250gb hdd. I was running out of room so i purchased another 250gb drive. I copied all my goodies from the 60 over to the new 250. I formated the 60, and loaded xp pro. So the OLD 250 is partioned in half so there are 2 logical drives. The 1st half has all my music on it, and the 2nd half contains movies, and is my dumping ground for my video editing. Now the 2nd half is messed up. When I try to open a video clip i get no video, but i do get audio, but its not the audio from video. It seems to me like its random mp3s i have that are on the 1st partion. Or the file won't work all togehter, and an error will pop up saying its an invalid format. The files are wmvs mpegs, or avis. It just doesnt make any sense. Some one help!
I realy do not see how moving your files around could cause this. But you did say you did a fresh install of XP pro on the 60GIG. Does this mean you are booting from the 60Gig? If so then more than likely you had a special CODEC for those files and lost it in the format. Audio is different from video so a missing or bad CODEC will result in the file playing only audio. You may also notice an exclimation mark next to the file name while it is playing in media player. Hover over the !. Sometimes that will tell you what you are missing. WMV, AVI or MPG is not information enough. There are various types of these files. For example AVI can be Encoded with XVID or DIVIX CODEC and will not play video without its CODEC installed. So try to think very hard what CODEC you had so you can find it and reinstall it. -Del
You should go Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management where your physical drives and logical volumes will be displayed. You may have to 'introduce' these HDs to the OS, where it will put a signature on them and welcome them into the fold... Otherwise, you should go Start > My Computer and highlight any drive listed there by its drive-letter (try 'tile' icons to display these). Right-click the drive > Properties > Tools > Error Checking > Check Now > Automatically fix file system errors. Do It. It will likely say no - it must run on reboot. Do it! This is especially important on NTFS volumes, and should be done now & then (at least once/month). Let us know if this helps, Regards
Yes I am booting from the 60. The moving of files off of the 60 was to my new 250. All the files on there work fine. And no I don't think that the codecs are an issue. Ive already redownloaded all the codecs...divx, xvid, so on, and so on. My problem is with the first 250gb i have. Like i said its partioned in half. I was running win2k, and then went to XP Pro. With 2000 everything was running fine. Then after the format, the first partion works fine. The 2nd one is the one I am having problems with. If I try to open any of the files on there 1 of 3 things will happen. 1 i will get an error message saying "Cannot play back the file. The format is not supported". 2 The video file, or mp3 file will open, and play. But if its a video there will be no video just audio. and the audio will not be the audio from that video file. if its an mp3 its not right mp3. Just one example is i have a file called "avi1.avi" and when i open it it should play a video clip from when i played football. Instead i hear pearl jam, and no video. The 3rd thing that will happen is i will try to open a file, and this is very rare. maybe 1 or 2 files in 100 it will acutally open the right video, or audio. I hope this explaination is more clear. Del as far as disk checking. Ive run western digital diags they give on the site, and tested with the quick test, and the extended both came back with a "pass" result. I tried the windows tests, but the test freezes when it gets to phase 4.
Just curious. What happens if you move one of those files from the second partition to a working one? Will it then play fine. If so I would say move all the files out of the partition and redo the partition. Then put the files back into it. If possible of course. -Del
Nope just tried...does anyone know of a good disk utility? maybe i can recover some of my files with it.
