worst case scenario

http://www.bloodandfire.co.uk/db/viewtopic.php?t=14129

Well folks, looks like the worst case scenario may have happened. I got a new external harddrive the other day and I was trying to get things settled out and located in their new homes on the different drives I have. That meant moving some large avi video files from my trip to Zimbabwe onto an external harddrive, moving my non-reggae MP3s to the new drive, and getting everything reconnected on the proper machines...

In the midst of this, the 300GB Maxtor drive that I keep all my reggae MP3s on, (every single one of them made from CD albums in my collection) is no longer recognized by my computer. It says the drive has 279 GB of "unallocated space" that can be formatted to become usable... That means it can't "see" those thousands of sings that ARE on there. DAMN!! I still have all the data, since I export it for use on my website, but since MP3s store their data in the sound file, I'll have to redo all those MP3s and reassign all those titles and other details! Ouch.