Yesterday 14,980 songs in Hoster songs...Today 3,173.

[michbabe]

Vista or XP?
Hoster version?


I have Vista...And just bought my Hoster it was the 3.319....I am not a computer wiz, but the files were there...then pooof...gone..

I just don't know where to go from here...

[slsides]

So if I am parsing the postings by Admin correctly, KMA files stored on an external hdd have nothing to worry about. Is that assessment correct?

Shaun

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by slsides

So if I am parsing the postings by Admin correctly, KMA files stored on an external hdd have nothing to worry about. Is that assessment correct?

Shaun

As long as your files were not in the MTU folders under Program Files then there shouldn't be a problem. Also be sure and install version 3.320 and not 3.319.

[slsides]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

As long as your files were not in the MTU folders under Program Files then there shouldn't be a problem. Also be sure and install version 3.320 and not 3.319.

i just want to make sure that when i set everything up for a customer, the files are stored in such a way as to not cause problems.

systems i build will have XP, but i already have one client who purchased her own laptop, which i'm sure has vista on it. i don't have any particular problem with vista on general principle, but from reading these forums it appears to be the very devil with you mix vista and hoster. :P

[michbabe]

Ok things happen. Guess I'm lucky it happened before we had the rest of our disc's entered.
I have upgraded to the 3.320.
One more question for now, how do I find all these files that seem to still be on my laptop? Even if I have to delete and start all over again, ok so be it...But I'd like to have the space back.
I am just so excited about getting this program up and running..
Thanks for all your help..

[Beavis]

this is a post by admin.




Best Recommendation!

I have checked around and the best recommendation we can make to recover files from a failing hard drive is SpinRite from GRC.com.

KickstartNews reviewed SpinRite v6.0 that seems to be very much like your condition:
The opportunity for the first test appeared only one day after we received our copy of version 6. An 80GB hard drive on one of our busy storage servers decided to pack it in. Prior to trying SpinRite we were still able to access the drive intermittently but it was impossible to copy data or run a file undelete utility. A handful of important files had been written to the drive subsequent to the last backup the previous night; files which we needed within about 48 hours, which meant that a professional data recovery service (with its three week backlog) was out of the question. We removed the drive and installed it in an identical hardware configuration, then booted SpinRite 6 from CD and did a Level 2 recovery (see above for recovery level definitions). After 22 hours, SpinRite completed its work and pronounced the drive fully recovered. We reinstalled the drive in the original server. It ran perfectly, the research assistant who had created the required files copied them off the drive and that was that. Nice job SpinRite 6. The drive was still running fine as we went to publication with this review two weeks after the incident. We used a level 2 setting in SpinRite: Recover Unreadable Data.

This can perform a rebuild of the data, as well as an analysis of the "health" of the hard drive.

GRC.com is Gibson Research Corp. owned and run by Steve Gibson. Steve is one of the "keepers of the Internet"... a white hat man who consults for NSA, CIA, FBI and the likes. He has incredible knowledge of how things work. SpinRite is $89.00 for a new buyer, or less if you have a prior version. If it recovers your 13,000 files, it's worth ever penny. Here are more testimonials if the one above didn't convince you.

[michbabe]

Thanks Beavis, I'll give SpinRite a try..

[swany]

Got real lucky, had the same thing happen to me, all of them gone. I do however have two outboard hard drives that I store all my kma files on.

Got up today to set the monitor window for doing a show on my new HP laptop with vista and 3.319 guess what all kma files gone. Went to MTU seen the sticky for the 3.320 upgrade. It is on and kma files reloaded. Viola all is well. TO ALL BACK UP BACK UP BACK UP. That extra hard drive is not that expensive, I do remember loading all my discs and converting to kma, around 14hrs a day for two weeks. Glad I did my backup.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by michbabe

Vista or XP?
Hoster version?


I have Vista...And just bought my Hoster it was the 3.319....I am not a computer wiz, but the files were there...then pooof...gone..

I just don't know where to go from here...

Upgrade to 3.320. This was fixed in that one.