>okay,
>thanks to those who posted the crosslinked file clues - i was pretty spooked
>last night
>i'm now pretty convinced i know what happened, but it still doesn't really
>add up,
>it happened on a separate physical hard drive
>no applications have been put on this drive
>it was totally re-formatted recently, having previously been a mac formatted
>audio drive running purely at 24 bit / 44.1
>
>at this point greetings from beyond the grave would seem more likely - but
>the snippet of audio could correspond to something that was on the drive
>before
That sounds likely.
If it was a normal high level format, then it wouldn't have
zeroed/formatted all the data on the disk, it simply overwrites the
existing File Allocation Table, any audio data would still be on the
hard disk.
If the new File Allocation Table gets screwed up and points to some
old data, then what you describe could easily happen.
It is strange that you say it's a separate hard drive, you say there
are no applications on this drive, but is this the drive where your
current song (or audio files) with the strange voice is located.
You should be running a utility to check the file structure of the
disk before it starts to defrag the drive, for example...on a mac you
would run Norton Disk Doctor to fix up the file structure before
running Norton Speed Disk to defragment the drive, I'm not sure what
utilities to use on Windows.
Simon
Canberra
AUSTRALIA