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[Stephen Crye]

[Rick Bushell] “Desperate”

#1 – don’t create a “second patient” (from my first-aid training). First let’s stabilize the patient.

FYI de-fragging will almost never fix anything, and is rarely needed nowadays.

Create a system restore point before doing anything else. Be sure to create the type that will allow you to roll back files.

Do you have a restore point available from before the problem? DO NOT roll back to it yet.

Post a screen shot of the error window for us to look at.

Give us more details about the project – source files, properties, etc.

Give us more details about your system – have a look at our “signatures”, and create one with that kind of info on your setup.

You mention that Vegas has been crashing, provide more details about that.

If you have access to any kind of disk imaging software, use it to take a full image backup of the disks in question.

Run chkdsk but DO NOT let it fix errors – just see if it reports problems. Here is a sample from my computer:

C:Windowssystem32>chkdsk
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is OS.

WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)…
204800 file records processed.
File verification completed.
700 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.
2 EA records processed.
60 reparse records processed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)…
260202 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
0 unindexed files scanned.
0 unindexed files recovered.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)…
204800 file SDs/SIDs processed.
Security descriptor verification completed.
27702 data files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying Usn Journal…
36290512 USN bytes processed.
Usn Journal verification completed.
Windows has checked the file system and found no problems.

468039511 KB total disk space.
280492384 KB in 149032 files.
78460 KB in 27703 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
321679 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
187146988 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
117009877 total allocation units on disk.
46786747 allocation units available on disk.

C:Windowssystem32>

Steve

Win7 Pro X64 on Dell T7500, MultiTB SATA, 8GB RAM, nVidia Quadro 2000, Vegas 12, 11, 10, 9 DVDA 6.0 & 5.2(build 135) Sony HDR-CX550V, Panasonic GH3 with LUMIX G X VARIO 12-35mm / F2.8 ASPH, LUMIX G X VARIO 35-100mm / F2.8

[Rick Bushell]

I really appreciate the time Steve. But so I don’t waste your valuable time I should run something past you but I don’t think it belongs on a public forum. I looked into hoeco.com but got lost. Climbing?

Rick