Solved Movie files not played from 2nd Local Disk

[RunOrDie]

Hello everyone,

I started experiencing an odd incident. My movie files from my 2nd internal hard drive (which is a physical hard drive, not a partition that contains my multimedia files) does not play anymore.

My transfer speeds are fine, and I can access my other items like my pictures, documents etc. Just not my movie files. Whenever I double click on a movie file, I see the blue progress bar slowing moving towards the right, and once it finishes, my movies still don't play...

Also, if I right click on my movies, I keep getting the spinning blue circle and then it would say "Windows not responding.." And then if I really wait, it will work for the one movie, but all the other movies won't work..I never had this happen to me...

Any help?

 

[archer]

Hi,

could try check disk

go to start and type cmd in search box and right click on cmd at top of list and choose run as administrator

type
CHKDSK <name of drive> /F
and press enter

 

[RunOrDie]

Hi, thanks for advice.

I already tried chkdsk and everything was normal, no failures or anything. I have access to everything else, just not my movies...

 

[whs]

I would say those files are corrupted. Make a new folder on the disk and copy 1 movie from you system disk to that folder. Then see whether that plays.

 

[RunOrDie]

Yep, they all play..I just have to wait a long time...

Can it be a loose connector? Or a program stopping it from playing?

 

[whs]

Try another player - e.g. VLC. That will show us whether it is the player or the disk.

Download VLC Media Player 2.1.2 (32-bit) - FileHippo.com

 

[RunOrDie]

Tried both VLC and WMP with no success.

If I wait for the spinning blue icon to stop, then my movie works. But I have to do this for each individual movie. Which before, I play the movie and it works..

Again, all of my other files work. And my movies work, just super slow...

I am running chkdsk with "Automatically fix file system errors" and "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors"

 

[RunOrDie]

Furthermore, while running chkdsk like I previously mentioned, I can not longer access my 2nd Local Disk Hard Drive. Is this normal? And in Disk Management it says I have all of the memory (442GB since it is a 500GB HDD) available..

 

[whs]

A 500GB disk should show as 465GB in disk management. 442GB is odd.

 

[RunOrDie]

Why does my 2nd hard drive only say NTFS now? It is still in the shkdsk stage though.

Currently, it has 131909 free clusters and counting...

 

[RunOrDie]

OK, so finally chkdsk is finishes. And still no problems found, and still, my movies will not play..

 

[whs]

This is very mysterious.

 

[RunOrDie]

I figured it out!! I stopped my AV from scanning before opening files!! Since I updated my AV version, prob all my settings were restored back to defaults..

Thanks anyways whs!

 

[whs]

I am glad you figured it out. I would have never been able to diagnose that.

 

[Layback Bear]

What anti virus program were you using that scanned movies before they would open?

 

[RunOrDie]

Ad-Aware through Real-Time Protection. There is a setting called "Scan Local Files"..That didn't affect any of my other files programs. Weird indeed.

 

[Layback Bear]

It takes longer to scan a movie because of its size and format.