Reading External Hard Drive

[mindonstrike]

Songs.mdb (it may or may not show the .mdb extension) has to be there someplace. Hoster will not play any songs from any drive without it.

Assuming "C" is your root drive and assuming you installed in the default location, it should be exactly where Support directed you. You can see for sure on the "build songs database" screen, towards the bottom in the box labeled "Songs database destination folder".

Sam

[micbob4]

Thanks Mindonstrike, Yes I can see the link at the bottom of the "build database" menu but it stops at database/ I think its just because thier isn't enough room to see the rest of the link. Your right it must be there because I'm able to play from my original external Hard Drive but when I connect the backup It creates an error report to send to microsoft (I'm sure you have seen this before when other progams experience problems) and says it must shutdown. The only thing that I feel it could be is that when I'm copying over the contents of my current HD something goes wrong causing it to fail. When I do a "build database" it indicates "successful backup ....." not sure of rest. But, it doesn't say what files are contained as mentioned by MTU support. I'm not sure if that is the problem but when I reconnect my current HD and "build database" I receive the same message and that works fine. The second HD is a 160 seagate I didn't format I just plugged in and the laptop excepted it and i copied over from F drive to E drive. I tried to delete and retry but still didn't work and windows ran a check on it because it said there was a bad sector and that it had corrected it. I hope I'm not doing anything to ruin the new HD. Could the problem be that I haven't imported anything directly from hoster to the new HD as I did with the original in order to setup the proper link? Just a thought I do want to thank everyone who is trying to help me. Your vast knowledge is truly appreciative and Hoster is the greatest program out there. In fact I just got two of my friends to buy the program for home use thanks, bob

[mindonstrike]

Hmmm.....

You can try doing a search for songs.mdb through the start button or control F

When you rebuild the database on the new drive how many does it show - same # as old drive? Doe it take a few minutes to build or is it instantaneous?

BTW I don't think windows fixed the bad sector, it justs marks it as bad so it knows to never write anything there again.
If this is a brand new drive with a bad sector already I wouldn't rule out the possibility that the drive is bad.

Sam

[micbob4]

When it builds the database in doesn't do it instantly it pops up a "successful ...." then I click OK and it takes about 1-2 minutes then indicates "successful backup ...." but it never shows # of files or anything showing #'s it just says "successful backup ..." . I'm currently using 2.115 if that makes a difference. Also when I do the same procedure with current HD it works fine. Should I upgrade Hoster could that be the issue? Am I copying the files correctly? If so I will stop focusing on that. Thanks again for your help, bob

[mindonstrike]

Just noticed you are using 2.115 which goes waaay back. Not sure I can remember that far back accurately (I'm an old guy-LOL) but as I recall the the succesful backup message pops up before the database is rebuilt and I do remenmber to get an accurate rebuild you HAVE to delete songs.mdb first.

All that aside the only thing I can think of that would cause hoster to crash with one drive and not the other would be A: a bad hardrive (or going bad). B: corrupt KMA files.

Thanks Mindonstrike, Yes I can see the link at the bottom of the "build database" menu but it stops at database/ I think its just because thier isn't enough room to see the rest of the link.

You should be able to place your cursor in there and then use the left or right cursor keys to move it back and forth.

Sam

[micbob4]

Well I was able to get the backup external HD to work. Apparently it wasn't a problem with copying the file from one HD to the other it was when I tried to
"build database" for the new external under a different drive number. When I hooked up the new external and changed the drive letter to the original one hoster worked fine. What worries me is that if I had my music already on an external HD, purchased Hoster, and then build database would I receive the same error. Will hoster only work by first importing directly through Hoster and staying with the original drive letter? Or was should I have deleted the file songs.mg (not sure what the exact name is) before I build database? If starting from scratch with music already on external HD would Hoster have a problem building database directly from the external HD? Just confused why building database didn't work just by switching drives. bob