Hard Drive crash, Library on other drive.

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Hi !

My OS hard drive crashed so I had to get a new one, got a shiny Samsung 850 Pro 512GB :slight_smile:

Now , my database for Plex is on another drive, so I wasn’t too concerned about re-scaning everything…Dear Lord, was I wrong. I am pretty sure I am the problem and that I’m doing something wrong.

So this is the path where I point Plex to:

And this is the path where the data is stored on the drive:

Now, After pointing everything to the right place, I restart Plex but nothing happens. Do I have to add librarys and then Plex is going to recognize the data ?? Do I have to do something else or am I doomed ??

Thanks :slight_smile:

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My setup is PMS is on my C drive and all my media files are on a NAS, drive Y I believe. It seems to work fine that way.

I didn’t have your problem but I did reinstall PMS and PMP a few times never having to reload. Try updating your library and Analyze each media file. Just guessing, so test one file first to see if that works.

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@lalumart@hotmail.com said:
My OS hard drive crashed so I had to get a new one, got a shiny Samsung 850 Pro 512GB :slight_smile:
Now, After pointing everything to the right place, I restart Plex but nothing happens. Do I have to add librarys and then Plex is going to recognize the data ?? Do I have to do something else or am I doomed

You did almost everything right.

But if you installed Windows from scratch on the new drive, you Windows user now has a different ID.
Which means that it currently may have not enough access ‘rights’ to access the data on the D: drive.
You must make sure that the Windows user, under which PMS is running, has ‘full access’ privileges to at least the folder D:\Multimedia\Plex Metadata (and all of its subfolders and the files within).

http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/take-ownership-of-files-folder-and-change-permissions-in-windows-8/

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Well, you are right. I opened my Roku and everything was there…But, everything in the library had “unavailable” beside it. So I followed the link you gave me but I am still having the same problem. Everything is there but with that “unavailable” bubble beside it. If I try to watch it anyway it starts buffering then ask’s me if the drive is loaded…

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Call up the mediainfo on a video
It should say the drive letter and folder name where Plex expects the media files.
Are the media files still available under this path?

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My bad… The drive on the NAS got unmounted for some reason , now everything is good and working.

Thanks for the help guys !