Oh yes. Tech woes.

[caddyman]

The last thing my PC did when I powered it off for the last time before I packed it and we left The Carpathia, was to announce that such and such a file may be corrupted. Unfortunately it left this snippet of intelligence until it was actually in the process of shutting down, so I couldn’t make a note of what it was.

Well, once it was all up and running after the move, it turns out that it was something to do with my Seagate 750GB external hard drive, which was no longer on speaking terms with the rest of the computer. Guess where Bryan’s entire music directory was, with some 55GB of songs on it? Guess where a load of movies were stored? Oh, yes.

After some faffing about, I managed to get the PC speak to the disk long enough to reformat the drive. I knew that this would wipe anything on there, but at least I’d have the drive back. So far, so good.

Anyway, last night I decided to recreate as much of the music directory as possible by using my iPod as the source. Of course this means telling iTunes not to synchronise anything and then enabling disk usage. So far, so good. Then we go about transferring files one subdirectory at a time. This takes ages as my iPod has 50 subdirectories full of music and stuff and even then a portion will be lost as file names repeat between directories (cleverly, they only register with 4 letter names, so 15,000 songs takes some restoring. Two hours into the process and read-write errors start popping up, don’t they? Suddenly the Seagate has spasmed a second time and all that data is lost (happily it is still on the iPod).

Once bitten, twice shied as they say. The Seagate does not get another chance. More to the point, I’m not entirely sure I can be bothered to try rebuilding the library. Life is too short.

Does anyone have any ideas on a better way of getting the information back on to my PC without cutting and pasting a block of files at a time?

Comments

[phil99.livejournal.com]

Have a look at this:

http://www.wikihow.com/Recover-Music-Stored-on-Your-iPod-%28Windows%29

[phil99.livejournal.com]

Or this (better):
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/25/how-to-get-music-video-and-photos-off-your-ipod-iphone-win/

[drjohnsilence.livejournal.com]

I've done this meself a couple of times and can heartily endorse that guide.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Grazie, grazie!

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Hurm...

I'll remember that, ta.

In the meantime, I shall just have to use those guides to help me restore the library!

I hates tech, sometimes.

[ladkyis.livejournal.com]

my external drive and puter stopped talking and the nice computer man said it was the case thingy that had died but the drive was fine. he put it into a new caseand it works beautifully..... except that I think I have a faulty power connection because sometimes it keeps stopping and starting and every time it does this it throws up the autoplay window which is a darned nuisance when I am in the middle of throwing gems around on Bejewlled blitz and only have a minute to beat the high score. OH and now I have to unconnect it from the puter when starting it up because it makes the puter hang.
~sigh, inanimate objects, sigh~

[kathbad]

I have used IMtoo which worked very well indeed.