Also the other LP side which mates with the file that I was able to open in Wavelab would not open at all. It was just a copy and when I went to delete it windows said it was only 96MB while the original file was 250MB. I am seeing some seriously weird shit across several hard drives and machines.
Gotta agree with your last sentence. Sounds like you've either acquired some sort of nasty (malware, trojan, etc that's messing with your registry) or you are seeing the first signs of a component failure (hard drive, memory, power supply, cable, etc).
Like I said earlier, at this point I got nothin else to suggest.
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It is interesting that you say that because the thought popped into my mind that I had bad reg files. I found Malware the other day on my new laptop maybe even the night before this occurred. I think that it was called Yontoo or something similar and I thought that it was a simple toolbar that got installed by utorrent, etc. Either way it made it past my Avast! and Malwarebytes which both run real-time. I uninstalled it and ran CCleaner to clear cookies and my registry. Since then I have seen the issues seen above. I think that I have a clean registry version that I am going to edit back in. If that does not fix it I will simply wipe everyone's ass clean. I back my shit up and do it regularly anyway and the install on the lappy is new with nothing to lose anyway. My question is why it would be on both machines that run mutually exclusive of one another?
I never have stuff like this happen to me. For 10 years + I am always the one cleaning up others messes for them. Ugh.