Itunes messing around with hard drive selection..... assistance needed.

[admin_exported]

I currently have all my itunes stored in lossless format on an external 2 tb hard drive. I have chosen in the preference section for the computer to locate its files from this drive, which is the F drive.

When Open itunes it sometimes reverts back to the C drive and I have to change the setting manually. I have had to deleate and re import the whole library on a number of times.

My questions are?

Why does it revert back to the C drive?
Is there anything I can do to stop it?

Each time i need to import a cd I need to check the right drive is selected. Its is really frustrating and I am close to killing my laptop.

Cheers

 

[Binman]

Is the external hard drive always connected to the laptop, or do you hook it uip as and when?

This is a guess - are you starting itunes with the hdd already connected? It maybe that itines is looking for your F drive when its not connected , so it reverts back to the default.

 

[Anonymous]

Hi Binman,

thanks for the reply, The hard drive is always connected to the laptop and boots up as the laptop does.

 

[kena]

The laptop could still be looking for external HDD before its fully booted, try powering HDD on first then power laptop on when it's full powered on.