External Hard drive question

[robbiedaniels]

Hey Roy,

Thanks for your reply. I looked at your response and am not sure this is where my problem lies. Probably because I didn't give enough information. When I copied the files to the other harddrive (external 1tb), I rebuilt the drive with obly this information on the drive. It's really funny but I have a Compaq that I do my show with (primary) and when I do a rebuild, It will pick up 19,000 of the 22,000 songs that I have in the same folder. Now these extra 3,000 songs were copied from another external drive of the exact same brand and space. Now my backup computer (stoneage but still a good computer) is a Dell 3000. I had to add a 2.0 usb to allow the TB external drive to work but all seems well other than this difference. Now when I run a rebuild with the dell, I get almost all my songs but it has about 100 songs that show "garbled information" on the songs information such as title, artist, etc ...but it will show ALL of the songs that I have on the drive(22,000). Now you may ask, why don't I just use this computer...well, I don't want to incorporate this into my show and get people used to the extra songs and not have it backed up. I tried completely wiping the compaq's external completely out and re copying but still the extra songs show in the file when I look for the KMA number but will not rebuild into the database to be found to play. Does this shed any other light?????
sincerely..
Hoster Dummy