Help Please – (trying to put my Vegas projects in backup folders or on dvd)

[Terje A. bergesen]

[johnny S] “I tried drag’ing and dropping my approx 1hr avi over to another drive and it gives me that cyclic redundency check error.”

OK, that is a good indication that there are problems with either your drive or your file system. You say that some of the files are compressed (blue). You can compress files either individually, by folder or the entire drive. I strongly recommend turning of compression for all drives in all cases. There simply isn’t any reason to compress files on a drive with the low price of harddrives.

Now to your dragging and dropping problem. Is the file that will not drag and drop properly also compressed (blue)? If so, there may be a problem in your file system, and there is a slight chance that chkdsk would fix it. Try to run “chkdsk E:” (assuming the E: drive is your problem) if this reports errors, run “chkdsk /F E:” which will make chkdsk try to fix the problems.

Chances are your harddrive or cable is bad though (more likely drive than cable). If you can, move the drive to a different cable and try again. You should also grab anything you can off the problem drive and put it on another drive, to be on the safe side. Chances are your problem files are lost, but they can be retrieved for a (often significant) fee.

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Terje A. Bergesen

[Johnny Shanton]

I checked and none of my hard drives have the compression option checked when right clicking on the drive. Is there another location i should check to ensure this compression is turned off.

I’ve been transfering the files that i can from the E (secondary internal) … over to some other drives . Some of the files … video’s .. or pics ..etc… are will give me the cyclic redundancy check error .. doesn’t matter if the file name is black or blue. Some will move over …some will not.

Is it possible that the problem is with my C drive ..and that if it were fixed it would fix the issues with the fles on these other drives? If i put in some dvd’s that i burned prior to this going on .. and the dvd drive doesn’t appear to recognize they are there. yet it does appear to depend on the dvd. When i put those same dvds into my dvd player hooked up to my tv it works.

Not sure if it would do me any good to take this 2ndary internal drive out and try moving it to another pc i have here in the house to see if it would work then.

Thanks
Johnny

[Stephen Mann]

Check this forum for some recent discussion about “data recovery” software. Your disk is going south.

Stephen Mann
MannMade Digital Video
San Jose, CA

[Terje A. bergesen]

[johnny s] “I checked and none of my hard drives have the compression option checked when right clicking on the drive. Is there another location i should check to ensure this compression is turned off.”

You can right-click the file it self and select “Properties”, click the “Advanced” button on the dialog. For the “blue” files you will probably find that the “Compress…” check box is selected.

ome of the files … video’s .. or pics ..etc… are will give me the cyclic redundancy check error .. doesn’t matter if the file name is black or blue.

I wouldn’t be surprised if you also told me that the hard drive, when accessing those files, is making noises (depends on the drive). The problem is simple, your drive is dying. You should get everything you can off that drive onto a new drive. The stuff you can’t get off you should either consider lost or you can try to recover it using some of the recovery software mentioned in other threads in this forum, or by a professional recovery service (this will cost you a few hundred dollars).

Is it possible that the problem is with my C drive ..and that if it were fixed it would fix the issues with the fles on these other drives?

No, it seems your E drive is dying. Nothing you can do about it. Drives have a limited life span, they die and must be replaced.

f i put in some dvd’s that i burned prior to this going on .. and the dvd drive doesn’t appear to recognize they are there.

This may or may not be related to your E drive having problems, it is difficult to know. If you are sure this started at the same time as your E drive started having problems, you may be in a situation where your IDE controller is having problems. I am now assuming your DVD burner is on the same type of controller as your harddrives, in other words, I assume your PC is a couple of years old and your E drive is not a SATA drive. Your DVD is presumably IDE/ATA, not SATA.

You could move the E drive to another PC and see if you have more luck. You should also test your DVD drive when the E drive is removed. IDE/ATA is a horrible way of controlling disks and DVD burners. One bad link in the chain may impact other drives. If, for example, your DVD burner is a slave drive on the same cable as your E drive (it being the master) problems with the E drive may impact your DVD burner. That is the nature of IDE/ATA.

I have made a lot of assumptions now, most of which may be wrong. Good luck and keep us updated.

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Terje A. Bergesen