Dual Booting - worthwhile?

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Dual Boot all the way...One for Music, one for Music\WWW\etc,.

This way I actually get on with makin' music and don't become distracted surfing the web!!!
 
personally i find that after optimizing my comp for recording....i can still play video games on it pretty smoothly. maybe its because my comp is powerful enough to handle it all or i just got lucky but i have everything i need on the desktop and no problems yet
 
AGCurry said:
No. All the hardware profile does for you is control what devices are enabled and disabled. It does not control what services are running or not. I believe that by far the easiest way to control both - devices AND services - is to set up a dual-boot environment.
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you can disable all the services you want by runing "configsys" from the start menu. START/RUN andtype "configsys.exe"

As was mentioned...if I get a virus I format the partition I use for the web. The recording OS doesn't need to be touched ever


Here's my setup:1st hard drive partitioned C, D & E.

C has windows XP with all the bells n whistles, DTP, interet, etc.

D has a stripped out version of win XP with just the recording software and and plugins instaled

E is my vault. I keep all my mp3s in there and all my setup files for all instaled programs. I also keep a backup(which I do regularly) of the drive image of C & D so I'm fully covered I also back up C & Dto DVD once a month just to be safe

Drive 2: F, I record onto. When a projects complete I back up to DVD. I don't have anything else on this drive All it does is record digital information from recording sessions.


I've been running this configuration for about 6-7 months now and nver encountered any problems. It takes 43 seconds to boot from one system to the other, a small price to pay knowing all your data is always safe

Alec.
 
LemonTree said:
you can disable all the services you want by runing "configsys" from the start menu. START/RUN andtype "configsys.exe"

As was mentioned...if I get a virus I format the partition I use for the web. The recording OS doesn't need to be touched ever


Here's my setup:1st hard drive partitioned C, D & E.

C has windows XP with all the bells n whistles, DTP, interet, etc.

D has a stripped out version of win XP with just the recording software and and plugins instaled

E is my vault. I keep all my mp3s in there and all my setup files for all instaled programs. I also keep a backup(which I do regularly) of the drive image of C & D so I'm fully covered I also back up C & Dto DVD once a month just to be safe

Drive 2: F, I record onto. When a projects complete I back up to DVD. I don't have anything else on this drive All it does is record digital information from recording sessions.


I've been running this configuration for about 6-7 months now and nver encountered any problems. It takes 43 seconds to boot from one system to the other, a small price to pay knowing all your data is always safe

Alec.
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Thats a sound approach....ghosting, and backing up to removable media...best of all worlds...plus, you can test updates, patches drivers, on your other install incase it stuffs up your music by accident...then roll it back using a ghost image if it all goes wrong...!!!! Better to be safe than sorry..@@
 
There is another real plus of a dual boot system. If one boot partition gets into a problem state, perhaps by a virus or bad driver, and that portion then fails to boot, you now have an alternative.

In a normal XP system, a fail to boot problem can be difficult to fix, as you have no access to any program to fix it because it won't boot. With dual boot, you boot to the other partition, and then examine what you have on the problem partition. This approach also works well for removing viruses that may exist on the problem partition.

www.terabyteunlimited.com has a simple program called BootItNG that works well for these things.

Ed
 
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