Hello,
My hard drive crashed with all my music after rebuilding it for so long.
Any thoughts on rebuilding using a music subscription and which service to use. But will I have the same ease of use (copying files onto USB and playing in my car?)
Or do I just slug it out rebuilding the library again with (multiple backups this time).
Any advice from someone who has made the choice to use a music subscription service or rebuilt a library would be valuable…
Sometimes they get deleted or blocked for copyright grounds too so…..
Meh..stolen anyway..
Somewhat related, I have a external HDD(WD 2TB) that says it needs to be scanned and fixed everytime I plug into Win7 PC. I do it and it says theres no bad sectors, but it comes up everytime again needing to have a scan and fix.
Is the HDD failing?, should I find another one?
The controller chip or the board is likely about to go - very common in the 2 TB line (up to 10 per cent of drives)
Transfer the data straight away and get a new drive.
Once the board goes the only way to fix it to get another drive of the same type and swap the board - faster and cheaper to get a new drive before this one goes,
Thanks for replying, yeah thought I could ride it out but yeah I guess you never know when it will fail so will do.
When windows tells you that the hard drive needs to be scanned and fixed, it means that there is corruption at the file system level. This does not necessarily mean that there is a hardware problem. It could be things like the file system did not get the last update. Maybe the USB HDD was removed before the write was done. Just scan and fix the issue. If the problem persists, try it on another computer before binning the HDD.
You get that message if you don't disconnect your USB before physically removing it
Spotify / Deezer / Google Music / Pandora too easy to stream now. I'm 51 and haven't bought a track in years.
I haven't bought a track ever, in my life. My pirating and Youtube ripping days are over though, because I paid $0 for a 4 month Google Music Trial and when that finishes it'll be $1 for a 3 month Spotify trial.
and when that finishes I'll be using my discounted Google Play gift cards.
using a music subscription and which service to use. But will I have the same ease of use (copying files onto USB and playing in my car?)
You think copying files onto USB storage and playing it in your card is about as convenient as a streaming service?
Playlist made in iTunes. Copy playlist to USB. Plug USB in.
More convenient for me.
Lol so old school
Get with the times: make your Playlists in Spotify is the way to go
I prefer not to use my phone while driving for music. Mainly because of battery and distraction.
But yeah, I have aux and USB inputs so yeah possible.
Streaming services are useless to me, as soon as I start driving around anywhere out of town they mess up because I lose signal. I gave up trying after having issues with it.
I also use the USB in the car trick.
Thanks, not the only one than.
Just for something strange.
IBM or someone found freezing a dead harddrive for up to a day, then plugging it in quick, extracting files worked in some situations.
Wouldn't hurt to try?
That only works for a specific type of fault — stiction.
Explained further here.
https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/umafv/el…
I tried that few times, due to dual raid failure. Sometimes the drive spins up and stays up long enough to replace the second drive. Sometimes the drive needs to be put back into the freezer for another hour, and copy a bit more and so on. You want to be in a very well air-conditioned room, to limit condensation.
This happened to me fairly recently. I managed to recover it by pulling apart the drive. Total fluke. I vowed to backup my backup of my backup. Hard drives just aren't reliable at all.
Is this an external hard drive? My laptop hard drive was failing and wasn't going past the start up screen. So had to remove it and plug it into a another computer using usb and extract the files.
Internal hard drive.
Does it start at all or complety dead ?
It starts, but is completely blank. It's like wiped/reformatted itself.
Sounds like the partition table is gone.
You could try GetDataBack Ntfs version (google it) but this may be a long arduous process as well as a gamble.. The drive might completely die halfway through the process of copying the files and on top of that there is a chance you will end up with damaged or incomplete files, meaning music tracks that will skip or stop playing halfway.
If you're going to try and rebuild then a suggestion would be to use Google Play Music and the Music Manager on PC. It syncs up your iTunes library to the cloud at no cost (up to 50,000) songs and then you can stream the songs over the cloud anywhere.
Store it into the cloud in future as a preventitive backup
Which service do you recommend?
Try RECOVERY software but connect drive in a portable enclosure. May still be able to recover some or all of your music.
Well what now, either re-acquire said music library from somewhere else or fix up the HDD somehow so that it reads….
I pretty much have a YouTube red free 4month subscription and or use deezer nowadays
With constant formations device breakdowns it's getting more harder to just save and download
That's what radio is for.
everything i listen to is on youtube ..