Reading External Hard Drive

[micbob4]

Ok Ive posted to threads trying to get help on why my Backup External Hard Drive won't work. I copied the files over from my current external Hard Drive and when I finished they looked Identical but when I connected the Backup External Hard Drive to my laptop and selected the drive its located on on hoster and clicked build database it didnt work. The build database said successful but when I selected a song and tried to add it to play list an error appeared saying Hoster must shutdown do I want to send a report. I'm sorry if my last two postings were confusing but I'm unsure of whats going on and because I know how Knowledgable most of your are in this forum I felt someone could help. Should I just delete the files off of the new External and re-try copying them again? I'm assuming it must have something to do with the file extension. something must have went wrong during the transfer. Do you have to do something different if the type of External Hard Drive is different? Any Help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, micbob

[bobcox- with the Lord]

hook up your ext drive open explorer, go to your ext drive, you should see file folder, double click to open, you should see all of your kma files, now look at the address bar at the top. that is the address you need to buld songs database, it should look like this.
C:\Program Files\Micro Technology Unlimited\Hoster\Songs
if you have to open folder twice to see your kma files then it may look like this. C:\Program Files\Micro Technology Unlimited\Hoster\Songs\Songs
Hope This Is Some Help. Bob



Dosnt matter what brand hard drive, it just stores the files.

[micbob4]

Thanks for replying Bob, THe address appears as you indicated and everything works fine when I build database with current External Hard Drive but when I connect the Backup External I get that error message. I'm wondering if something went wrong during the copying of the file. Thanks, Bob

[MTUSUPPORT]

Make sure that the backup drive has the EXACT same drive letter as your Original, unless you go to the Tools menu (under Hoster)\Build Songs Database and change the information to the new drive letter and then rebuild the songs Database. Then it should work fine.

[micbob4]

Thank You MTU for your reply, After I plugged both external drives into my laptop I opened both drives (E and F) my existing hoster music files were on the F drive so I right clicked the mouse click selected all and clicked copy. Then I click in the E drive box and click paste then it took about an hour and 1/2 to copy over. Everything seemed fine. After it finished I click tools in Hoster selected build database and select file. File box opened I click on E drive and folder "Karaoke music" and click bulid database it finished saying successfully backup (something to that extent) but when I tried to play a song an error page appeared asking if I wanted to send a report and that hoster would have to close. There were two items in the existing F drive a folder labeled Karaoke and when you opened it there where all the song files and a file labeled hoster.hst when I clicked it about six songs dropped in the hoster play list. Should I have just opened the Karaoke file and then selected all and copied into a folder on the other drive or does it sound as if I did it right and something just went wrong during copying? If so should I delete the file and try again? Thanks, Bob

[micbob4]

Well I tried deleting the file off of the new external Hard Drive and recopying but this time windows had to scan the new hard drive a found bad sector in Karaoke/dk039.7 a fixed but again when I would build database selecting the new drive E it indicated everything was successful but as soon as I selected a song windows said hoster encountered an error and wanted to know if I wanted to send a report. I wish someone could explain what I'm doing wrong. I bought this external Hard Drive to backup my music and hoster won't except it. I hope I'm not damaging the new Hard Drive by deleting the file and starting over. Please someone give me a recommendation. I'm assuming someone has backup their external HD to another before and can tell me where I'm going wrong. Thanks, Bob