replacing my hard drive

[prober]

I believe my hard drive on the laptop that has my hoster program is going bad. If I replace the hard drive, will I have to purchase my Hoster program again? I have retired from the Dj and Karaoke business and just use the hoster program now and then for personal use.

[Beavis]

no, why dont you clone your bad drive to a new one ? all it does is make an exact copy of your drive. its plug and play.

[ddouglass]

If you have any of the version 4 then you can remove it and then re-install on new drive.
If it is an older version then submit a Support email Ticket in the Support section of the MTU web page to have them reset your registration code.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by Beavis

no, why dont you clone your bad drive to a new one ? all it does is make an exact copy of your drive. its plug and play.

why would you clone a bad drive ? , if you cloned the same bad drive, you'll still have the same bad drive.it would be better to just start fresh, re-install .

[Beavis]

a bad drive is not a corrupt drive. its probably just old. he said it was going bad. if he clones it it will take about 30 minutes and nothing will change. he just keeps on rolling with a new and larger drive.

when i say clone, i mean copy.

i use nortons ghost.

[prober]

thanks for the information. Originally, I was getting a lot of "not responding" on programs. I don't remember the Hoster ever failing though. Recently, I can here the motor on the hard drive laboring when running. The laptop is 4 years old and has been used a lot, that is why I believe the hard drive is going bad and will replace it. I had a computer geek look at the "not responding" issue and he came up with nothing. Lately, this issue has been mimiumal.

[Aidan]

Hi All,

Hope you can help....
I purchased new hard drive to transfer all KMA files, system would not read.
So rebuilt song data all went well, tracks playing fine, however I now cant import new disc..... Clicked on import track, there was no brand or disc id Categories.
This following error is appearing....
app name..hoster.exe app ver..3.3.1.6 mod name..hoster.exe mod ver..3.3.1.6 offset..0009a5b0
I have read that I might need to reinstall hoster could you please help, as I have a big gig tonight and need to load one certain song.
Thanks in advance

Aidan

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[Roy Dennis]

Sounds like you have moved more than just your KMA folder.
The data for importing songs is in the Bucket.mbd file, make sure that is still in your Hoster folder. Check your external hard drive and see if you have accidentely moved some of the other files to it, only the KMA folder needs to be moved.
If all else fails I would think reinstalling would correct this problem.

[Aidan]

Hi Roy,

Thanks for your quick response, I have this for 5 years and never a problem untill 2 months ago when some of my songs wouldnt play, error kept coming up on the main play screen, so I thought I would change the hard drive as it is getting on a bit.
I have tried looking for the Bucket file in all files c,d and g.. cant find it, must be somewhere as the rest of my songs are playing.
When I am loading up new disc I have another error on screen as follows:
Import folder G:\hoster karaoke song\cannot be found. the default folder will be used!
I have taken all files out of the hard drive apart from the KMA and put back said files to the c: drive

Any other ideas you might have would be very welcomed.
Thanks Aidan

[Roy Dennis]

I'm a bit confused by your statement.
1 Have you replaced the internal Hard Drive C ?
2 Why is the external hard drive G ?

Your Hoster program must be installed on your C drive with all the original files. Your external drive only holds your song files, in your case KMA files. Normally the external drive letter would be E and your internal Rom drive D as in your post.
When you plug an external usb drive into your computer it automatically gives it a drive letter, if you plug other things into the computer before your hard drive it may switch the drive Volume #. Then Hoster can't find the files again.
If you have your original installation file I would try and re-install Hoster to the C drive. Then plug your external hard drive in to the computer before booting up and always try to connect it to the same usb port each time you use it. After booting up with no other usb Ports used check from explorer what volume it has allocated the external drive and rebuild the database to that volume.

[Aidan]

Hi Roy,

I am glad your confused as I have gone past that now.
Hoster is in the c: drive however Bucket.mbd is not, the only bucket in there has a key icon beside it.
Where would I find my original installation file?
With regard to the hard drive I always use the same port, I use to run with 2 hard drives and now with 1 1xTB drive.
If I wanted to reinstall, would this be the best option which would include the up grade as my system is over 5 years old know.
I am sorry that I cannot explain this any better than I am doing,

Thanks Aidan

[Roy Dennis]

First off if you have a Bucket file there that must be it, you are not seeing the .mbd as you probably have view extensions box ticked not to show.
You can sort this by Clicking on the Tools Tab above the open folder then select "Folder options" from the next window select the "View Tab" then scroll down the list till you see "Hide extensions for known file types" and un-tick this box then press Apply & OK. This won't solve your present problem but it will show the full file name.

To find if you still have your original installation file on your computer try this: assuming your running XP go to Start/Search from the window select "All files and folders" In the top box enter "hoster3" in the bottom box select drive C then press search. It may take a time but if you saved it originally it will find it. If it finds a few select the version your latest one, it should have a setup.exe following the file name.
If you can't find it then I'm afraid you will have to upgrade to a new version as the early versions aren't available for download.

In your original post you said you keep getting an error coming up, just putting your kma files on an external hard drive is unlikely to cure this if the problem is your internal hard drive failing. Probably need to replace that to cure your original problem.

[Aidan]

Thanks Roy, I will give all that a try tomorrow as I am gigging soon and dont want to loose anything else.
I will let you know what happens and thanks for taking the time to help

Aidan

[ddouglass]

By the way the extension is MDB not MBD.

[Lonman]

However if you are only importing one song, you can manually enter the data to get the song imported.

[stublack]

Just an idea when you import your new songs make sure the drive and folder selected is the same where your KMA files are stored.

[Aidan]

Hi All,

Thanks so much for all your responses, I think I have made a huge blunder and deleated files I shouldnt have,with regard to importing songs, as mentioned before my hoster program is over 5 years old now so I think it is time for an upgrade.
I am going to purchase the new system, as thank god I am quite busy and havent the time to spend sorting it out.
Thanks again

Happy Christmas

Aidan