PC stuffed, Music Folder gone

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Roon Core Machine

Windows 10 Pro, 16Gb Ram , i7 Core . 2017 PC with Gigabyte Motherboard and 2 Hard Drives.
The 3 TB Drive D held my Roon Music FLAC files.

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Description of Issue

Any known instances of the following? My Core is generally off all week. Was playing fine last weekend, I don’t use this computer for much else, occasionally YouTube /movies because this PC is attached to my TV with the stereo speakers either side. I came home last Friday switched computer on, it booted into Windows I double clicked the Roon Icon, went to get a beer because generally it takes a minute or 2 to open and start.

Came back into the listening/TV room and the screen was black with a cannot boot from this drive warning message. Switched off … no joy. Would not restore from Backup or System Image. Ah well time for a new PC :slight_smile:

My PC store build me a new machine, I take my old PC down to the shop to get D Drive folders transferred to the new machine. No Files, No folders can be found … No music.

I have a backup of my music folder in Google Drive and on an External HD … but what a hassle … why would [ for example ] a Virus or a Programme wipe my files?

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This is not normal, and an indication that something was wrong with your system.

Since Roon doesn’t touch your media files, unless you explicitly delete a track or release using the Edit menu, I have moved this thread to Off Topic.

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This is such a bummer. Sorry to hear about this.

However the moral of this story is you have a On-Site and also a Off-Site backup.

Glad to hear this part. Hopefully you will be back up and running quickly.

–MD

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