DAE error 87 and -6 with playback of 24 bit files

[joemail75]

Hey all. Ive been running m-powered 7.1 on an xp machine (1.6 gightz, 1.5 g ram, maudio 1814) for over a year with no problem. Now for some reason I go to open up a large session recorded at 48k and 24 bit and it opens...but when i playback it does not play, eventually giving me these two errors. To my knowledge nothing has changed, no settings...its like i was working on it one day and now its wont work. Oddly enough I was able to work on a session in 44.1/16. No apparent issues.

I know the error's point to a fragmented hardrive or not enough space, but ive tried to defrag...it isnt that. Ive also confirmed im using a NTFS hardrive...its just my local C drive...and my disc allocation is correctly set up. Again its worked with this gear up until now so I know it CAN work...i need to find out whats preventing it.

Any ideas as to what could have changed in my machine that this is now happening? I;ve tried all basic general troubleshooting...looking for some expert advice. Thanks for all help.

[eddiewes]

Do you use your C:drive for both Protools and for recording. If so, this could be the problem. Digidesign says that you should use a separate drive for recording and editing your stuff. Maybe this is your problem.

[Ryanchristopher]

I have the same stupid problem and did nothing new!!! Did you find a way to fix it?

[dillon99999]

snip - see below

[dillon99999]

the way to fix it is by installing a separate hard drive for audio (as was mentioned above).

we have seen several posts like this lately, all of them with the same symptoms: Upgraded to 7.4 - it used to work fine on 7.1 - now it's not working.

solution: get a separate hard drive for audio - don't attempt to use the C: drive - and don't try to "partition" it into a separate drive, because that is essentially still using the same "drive".

hard drives are only $30 - a modest investment.

avoid using USB drives - but firewire hard drives are acceptable.

the best choice is either ATA or SATA internal hard drives.

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[nevertried]

I have the same problem and I have two seperate physical drives. I am able to play almost all of the songs on one drive without the error, but not all. On my main drive I cannot play any of the songs at all without getting the error. I have reinstalled, formatted, defragged. I still have 51 gigs left on my drive and do not have anything running in the background while using Pro Tools. I have been using Pro Tools 7.1 for a few years now without any problems, I have not upgraded or added anything. It was working a week ago and then all of a sudden it won't work anymore. I can't figure it out and Pro Tools Tech isn't helping me at all, I've sent them a few emails and they're not answering my questions. HELP!