successful HD#2 install now what?

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Hi,

With some confidence building help from the guys here I've been able to install a second HD. It's slaved. Where do I go from here? How does it work? It shows up as a different drive in "my computer" which is what I expected. I didn't want to transfer files from the old HD because I was having some operational problems and needed to reinstall anyway. My plan was to download all my music programs fresh onto the new HD then reintroduce my files from my backup CD's. Then I was going to uninstall the original programs from the old HD when I got things up and running.


Am I getting warm?

Thanks,
Rusty K
 
Ok....I'll post to my own thread.

I tried downloading my multitrack software from the website onto the new HD. I got about a 70k file which I assume is just the latest fix. I can't open the program since it's not the exe. file and Windows won't let me delete it.

So I think I understand a bit better now. Since the second HD is "slaved" I'm not going to be able to reinstall the program on the second HD till I uninstall it from the first. Then a shortcut to the desktop/start/program will open the program from HD #2.

Am I getting warmer?

Rusty K
 
Umm. I'm not sure I follow what you are trying to do. Usually you put each drive as a master on their own IDE port. You use one drive for the OS and ALL programs. The only thing you use the second drive for is saving the audio files.
 
Roadkill,

I couldn't put both drives as masters as my CD ROM already occupied the second master position.

Thanks for your response. I guess that's what I'm asking. How do I set this puppy up and how will it work?

Rusty K
 
It may be that your program has key info in the registry on drive C. You probably need to uninstall the first copy then reinstall on the 2nd drive, if that's what you want to to do. This will rewrite the pointers in the registry to your new drive.

I think you should follow TexRoadkill's advice and put all of your exe and installed programs on the C drive and only put the data associated with these programs on the D drive. This, unless you are using Sonar or one of the Cake walk products. They seem to run a little smoother when the program and data is on the same drive.

The advantage to all this is that if your OS drive (C in this case) ever crashes, you do not lose your audio, spreadsheets, documents etc. You can rebuild a new drive with you OS and programs and the data (over on D) stays intact.
 
Middleman,

Thanks a bunch. I hadn't thought of the "crash" issue. I'll take that advice. I'm using Ntrack and haven't heard if it responds well in the config. you described.

Part of my problem is that I need to make space on my drive C as my system has been acting up a bit of late. If I understand correctly I can't copy files from one HD to another in the "slaved" position. I want to get those files over the the new HD. I do have them backed up but the program needs the "path".... Can this be done with with "file/save as" the next time I'm working with one of the songs?


Thanks again,

Rusty K
 
Ok I've answered my own question. The "Save As" function will work to transfer existing files to the new HD, then I after that I should be able to delete the files from drive C.

Thanks,

Rusty K
 
Rusty K said:
I couldn't put both drives as masters as my CD ROM already occupied the second master position.
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Then tell that CD to be the slave on the same IDE as the OS drive. What kind of computer whipped bitch are you? YOU ARE THE MASTER!!!
 
oh, and you should be able to drag and drop files from one drive to the other no matter what the config. It will just be slower if they are on the same IDE. That's what having the right config is all about, optimizing your bandwidth so data gets from point A-Z ASAP.
 
Yes Roadkill....This computer has whipped this "bitch" on several occasions and usually when I least expect it.

Sorry I'm a music geezer trying like the devil to keep his head above water in the computer age (and loving it I might add).

Sometimes it's the basic stuff like this that trips me up.

Let me ask... can I reconfig the new HD after it's already been partitioned and formated if I switch the positions of the HD and CDROM?

Groveling,

Rusty K:D
 
Partitioning and formatting won't be affected by the physical placement on the IDE ports or it's Master/Slave config.

Just to clarify this is how I would do it:

IDE 1 - HD1 Master (OS and all programs)
IDE 2 - HD2 Master (Audio Data and misc files only, no programs)

The CD can be placed as a slave on either drive. If this is a CD burner for your audio I would put it on IDE 1. If it is just a reader for installing programs I would put it on IDE 2.

Don't worry, my computers remind who is the real master every day.
 
Thanks TexRoadKill.

Hey I've joked for years that I live very near the roadkill capital of the world. You know it's one of those simi urban areas where the homeowners feed the deer. Don't know if it's true but they must be in the running for sure.

I have a dear musician friend in Flagstaff. One of those people I always wanted to play with but somehow it just never worked out.

Rusty K
 
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