Linking to local media with Internet Explorer

Hi everyone. I'm stumped, this is something I was doing before my hard drive went kaput but I can't get it to work again.

I'm trying to play local media from a link in Internet Explorer. The link goes to a playlist file which in turn opens the media player.

After reloading my programs on to a new hard drive the linking doesn't work from IE but it does in Firefox.

This is probably more of a IE trouble shooting issue than an html one but maybe some of you know.

Putting my code into a very simple form..

"<p align="center"><font face="HeartOfStone"><font size=
"+2"><a href="File:///C:\Blade.m3u">Blade</a></font></font></p>"

This creates a link that Firefox can use to start the media in my media player but Internet Explorer says "Page can not be found".

I need to get it working in IE because that's what my media catalog software uses.

Thanks for your help.
Rich