I had what appeared to be corrupted files. Discovered what the real cause was so thought I’d log it here in case it happens to anyone else.
Have been using Kodi for years (Kodibuntu). The other day when I went to play a file, Kodi said it couldn’t play. It turned out that many files in different directories were all the same.
I tried to run them from a windows version of Kodi then another windows media player. All the same. Some files were ok, others not.
When I used MediaInfo to show the file properties like video & audio codecs, it showed that the non-playing files were missing some or all of those properties. I hex viewer comparing a backup copy showed the files were modified, seemingly corrupted. I considered a ransomware attack, or that Kodi had gone mad and was corrupting them (yes I know its only a reader…..).
Now I’m in the process of changing from Kodibuntu to Kodi Windows. I moved the files to a new 3TB disk on the windows box.
I then discovered that Minitool Partition Wizard thought my 3TB drive was ~850GB. Windows Disk Management said it was 3TB.
The Minitool support site solved my problem.
Since I had moved to the new server, I had loaded Intel Matrix Storage Manager (seems to be same as Intel Rapid Storage Manager). Can’t remember where I downloaded that driver from but it was out of date. When I downloaded Intel Rapid Storage Manager 10.1, Minitool now saw the disk as 3TB. Suddenly all the files were ok. I half expected that whilst running on the old driver that the files might really now be corrupted, but no, everything is just fine.