Advanced Sonar installation (dual boot)

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2011/06/05 07:56:51 (permalink)

Advanced Sonar installation (dual boot)

I want to ask you before i begin,

Windows 7 64 bit, Windows 7 32 bit dual boot. I will make another hard drive only for data, samples etc. Lets say i am installing Sonar 64 bit. I will choose installation folder E, most of the things will be installed on E drive right?

Now i will boot 32 bit Win 7 and do the same thing. Those files on drive E will be overwritten no? Is there any problem?

I am planning this for dim pro and all other big plug ins.




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    mudgel
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    Re:Advanced Sonar installation (dual boot) 2011/06/05 10:04:55 (permalink)
    You can run the 32 bit and 64 bit version of SONAR under a 64 bit OS. It's common practice for those of us who have some 32 bit plugins that just won't work in SONAR 64 bit.

    Why do you particularly want to have a dual boot?

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    Re:Advanced Sonar installation (dual boot) 2011/06/05 11:20:40 (permalink)
    You don't need to use dual boot. 

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    Re:Advanced Sonar installation (dual boot) 2011/06/05 12:41:21 (permalink)
    No reason to dual boot the same OS unless you are developing and testing software under those environments.

    However, I have a Vista / XP dual boot and there are no problems pointing the different setups to the same libraries on another drive.

    Your example 'Dim Pro' works a treat setup that way, you do have to be a little clever if you update the patches for them to show up on both OS's the same though. (Which just means keeping the Dim Pro install folders synchronized on both OS's.)

    I get a new machine delivered next week and I plan on having W7 Pro x64 and XP x86 setup as a dual boot as I still need access to some apps that don't work on anything above XP (even in W7's XP mode) and don't envisage any problems at all.

    How I set them up is splitting one drive into as many partitions as OS's I plan to set up.  In my case 2 (C: for the W7 boot D: for XP).  I can use partitions on the same drive here as I won't be booting both OS's at the same time obviously.

    From then on I have a Samples drive which contains all my libraries, ideally if you have a third drive you'd put your project files and printed stems on that.
    post edited by Jonbouy - 2011/06/05 12:59:17

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