Error creating KMA file

[Dufgolfer]

I have a durabook laptop purchased from MTU with windows xp home addition. I recently updated to Hoster 3.321. Since then I have only been able to download one disc. I have purchased soundchoice, chartbuster, and quick hitz discs. I am trying to save them to my songs file in my f drive which is an external drive on which I downloaded all my other discs using the earlier edition of hoster. The Program copies the track, writes KMA file, then gives me "error writing KMA file. What am I doing wrong?

[Beavis]

did you update the computer from windows and update the cd-rom drives firmware ?

[Dufgolfer]

Yes, Ihave done this.

[ddouglass]

And he doesn't by the Auto Update. Have you done the Custom Updates from the Microsoft Update web page?
Did you set the import CD screen to save to your F: drive?
Can you see the F: drive in Windows explorer?
Or did it change drive letters when you attached it to the laptop?

[Dufgolfer]

I have done the custom updates. I can see the hard drive. It is the same drive I have been using. It worked fine until I updated to 3.321. I bought two soundchoice discs after I updated and downloaded one . I could not download the other one. I have bought two chartbuster and one other disc since and cannot download them either. I can download them to the play list but not to the hard drive. I am at a loss.

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by Dufgolfer

I have done the custom updates. I can see the hard drive. It is the same drive I have been using. It worked fine until I updated to 3.321. I bought two soundchoice discs after I updated and downloaded one . I could not download the other one. I have bought two chartbuster and one other disc since and cannot download them either. I can download them to the play list but not to the hard drive. I am at a loss.

The fact that you imported one disk before the problems started tend to indicate your upgrade to 3.321 was a coincidence rather than a cause.

To rule out a problem with the external drive I would try and import something into your C: drive.

Sam

[Flipeoke]

May sound trivial, and forgive me if it is something you've already checked, but are you sure the external drive is not full?

[Dufgolfer]

I am able to download to my "C" drive. My external drive is only 6 mo old and I have 40,000 songs on it. It is a 500gb Iomega with 317gb free space. I Just came from doing a show with and it works fine so why can't I add new songs to it?

[ddouglass]

Information wasn't correct. Edited out.

[ddouglass]

Go to My Computer, right click on the drive and make sure it hasn't changed to Read Only. Check the Folder where you store your files for the same thing.

[mindonstrike]

Originally Posted by Dufgolfer

I am able to download to my "C" drive. My external drive is only 6 mo old and I have 40,000 songs on it. It is a 500gb Iomega with 317gb free space. I Just came from doing a show with and it works fine so why can't I add new songs to it?

Just because you can read to it doesn't necesarily mean you can write to it (though I haven't heard of that before). I've had HD drives go bad in under a years time before so age isn't really an indicator. Something else you could try is saving a small text file or something else to the drive and see if it will, or try editing one of your kma's info.

Sam

[Beavis]

transfer all the info on the external drive to the c: drive, then reformat the external drive. make sure you select NTSF when reformatting.

[Dufgolfer]

Thanks for your help. I tried everything suggested and nothing worked. Then I opened a new file on the external hard drive a I can download to it. Don't ask me why, lol.

[laddie]

Had the same thing happen. I created a new dir on the same drive and it worked..