MOTM

>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