I suppose it COULD be a permissions problem.
 
Are you running Sonar "As Administrator"?

Bristol_Jonesey
I suppose it COULD be a permissions problem.
 
Are you running Sonar "As Administrator"?

I just tried that and it still didn't do anything.... 

Could it be a problem because I have both the 32bit and 64bit installed on my computer?

what happens if you try to drag-n-drop one of your files from windows expolrer? crash sonar, or does it play? do these files play in other apps like wmp or vlc?
 
also, are you running the latest driver for your graphics card?

dlion16
what happens if you try to drag-n-drop one of your files from windows expolrer? crash sonar, or does it play? do these files play in other apps like wmp or vlc?
 
also, are you running the latest driver for your graphics card?

YesI am running the latest driver on graphics card... when I drag and drop from windows explorer it works fine.... all of my files play in Windows Media Player and Studio One

Hi Charles,
 
Do you have a floppy drive configured on this system? If so, does disabling it in Device Manager help with the problem? To disable the disk drive, right click my computer (my PC or This PC) and choose device manager. Expand the Floppy disk drives list, right click the floppy disk drive and choose disable. If you have any CD/DVD ROM media in your disk drive, try removing those from the tray. 

Dan Cate [Cakewalk]
Hi Charles,
 
Do you have a floppy drive configured on this system? If so, does disabling it in Device Manager help with the problem? To disable the disk drive, right click my computer (my PC or This PC) and choose device manager. Expand the Floppy disk drives list, right click the floppy disk drive and choose disable. If you have any CD/DVD ROM media in your disk drive, try removing those from the tray. 

I would not have thought of that. come to find out I did have a dvd in my cd/dvd rom. Pulling it out didn't work. also I didn't see a floppy drive installed on my system... I went ahead and did a total uninstall as per instructions with with a post earlier and this didn't help. The only thing that really bugs me is this. Let me tell you what system I am using just in case this may help
 
I have 3 drives all at 7200 rpm. Main, Sample and Project drive. I am running Win7 Home premium 64bit. with a Sandy Bridge i7 and 8gb RAM. I am not too certain if my audio interface driver would matter but with that I am using a Presonus Firestudio Project. As stated earlier the only other major software that would utilize around the same amount of resources as X2 is Studio One 2.6....
 
I did another uninstall and re-install with X2 but this time I followed the instructions posted here

this didn't help at all.. What kills me is the fact that I have pointed the browser in X2 to my separate  project folder and I can breeze through that like nothing... I can breeze though my main drive like nothing and any music albeit .wav and mp3 can play and drag and drop just fine in the browser.  This bugs me because it is just my sample drive that stalls out until I click on anything with my mouse, whether it be in Sonar or me trying to pull something else up in Win7 all together. I thought it was the hard drive itself but I have checked the properties and compared them to my other two hard drives and I have no problem with it when I navigate to it through S1 2.6
 
I hope this helps

could this be a usb2 - usb3 issue? are the drives the same type, or do you have usb3 drive plugged into usb2 port or vice versa?

They are the same. All of my drive ls are connected using sata cables directly to the motherboard

Can you run chkdsk on that drive, is windows update up to date? What happens if you disable your virus scanner? Can you paste the main file path to your media? Cheers