bapu
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How I got ready for Win 10 on the DAW.
It's been three years since I did my DAW build which means that it's time to replace my C: drive (samples and projects drives were already replaced in March).
I've yet to fill up my 500GB c:\ drive. Seagate ST3500413AS.
I've been told that the best cloned drive is same model if you highest rate or auth'd software to work withiout re-authing.
Found the same model dive for $36 delivered.
So my plan is clone my C: drive to the new one when Win 10 is available. As wll take an image. Install Win 10 on the old drive. Verify that all works. If so, re-clone old drive (now Win 10) to new drive. Re-image old drive back to Win 7 (as a 30 day revert safety net). Destroy old drive after 60 days.
Good plan?
Flaws?
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Re: How I got ready for Win 10 on the DAW.
2015/08/08 19:06:17
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Brilliant! It's just what I used to do. For years, each time a new OS came out, I'd get a new drive for the OS drive and just shift all the drives. I usually did clean installs rather than cloning, but the idea is the same. I've done this long enough, that my C: Drive has become volatile. By this I mean I can wipe the OS and rebuild without touching my Data drive. I do back up the data drive first (it had been 6 months since I'd backed it up! Yikes!). I'm surprised 1/2 TB takes care of you. I have 3 TB for data and I'm regularly having to purge projects because I don't have space. I use this tool... http://spacemonger.en.softonic.com/to find space that isn't being used for what I want. This tool was free for years before they started selling licensed copies.
StudioCat > I use Windows 10 and Sonar Platinum. I have a touch screen. I make some videos. This one shows how to do a physical loopback on the RME UCX to get many more equalizer nodes.
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bapu
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Re: How I got ready for Win 10 on the DAW.
2015/08/08 19:29:04
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Samples drive is 4TB. projects drive is1TB.
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Re: How I got ready for Win 10 on the DAW.
2015/08/08 19:39:38
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bapu
Good plan?
Flaws?
Which do you want us to respond to? The plan sounds solid, but we could be here a while discussing the second question... 
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Re: How I got ready for Win 10 on the DAW.
2015/08/08 22:28:41
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Sounds like a great plan. Beats closing your eyes and jumping.
I plan to do the same thing, but with an image on a removable drive. Your idea would be faster if I do have to backrev, possibly more reliable (because you already know you have a good image), and may be cheaper if my current removable drive has insufficient space and I have to buy another one.
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Re: How I got ready for Win 10 on the DAW.
2015/08/09 08:45:19
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Good plan.
Your steps are safer than mine but here is what I did:
I upgraded yesterday.
I already had installed an SSD SATA root drive for Windows 7 and had all my music/sample files on my 1 TB drive.
I also have a 1 TB backup drive.
I used Acronis to make a disk and partition backup of my C drive.
I then let Windows 10 installer do its thing.
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Re: How I got ready for Win 10 on the DAW.
2015/08/13 11:30:30
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Drive arrived yesterday. Upgrading the DAW over the weekend.
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Re: How I got ready for Win 10 on the DAW.
2015/08/13 11:45:36
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It'll be like being in familiar surroundings with a new outlook.
I always enjoy doing upgrades on my PC........like giving it new life.
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Re: How I got ready for Win 10 on the DAW.
2015/08/13 13:50:21
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I'm now on Windows 10...
Two new SSD's arrived at around 13:00 hrs and here I am, less than six hours later, sitting at my W10 laptop, listening to my current SPlat project.
That included upgrading from W8 to W8.1, on the new system SSD first.
I am surprised to say that I have had no glitches whatsoever (I guess I shouldn't have said that!!!)
My only disappointment so far is I'm going to have to dig out a MIDI cable because my old Edirol PCR-300 keyboard controller no longer works via USB. I'm hoping that using it as a MIDI controller will fix that problem. Else I'm going to have to "treat" myself to a new keyboard...
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Re: How I got ready for Win 10 on the DAW.
2015/08/13 15:45:37
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Mesh
It'll be like being in familiar surroundings with a new outlook.
So their email client changed too? 
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Re: How I got ready for Win 10 on the DAW.
2015/08/13 17:05:01
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Was gona upgrade to Windows from DOS this year..perhaps...but then you need stuff like this.
Windows 1.0 requires a minimum of 256 kilobytes (KB), two double-sided floppy disk drives, and a graphics adapter card. A hard disk and 512 KB memory is recommended for running multiple programs or when using DOS 3.0 or higher.
Jeezs...who could ever deal with all that!
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craigb
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Re: How I got ready for Win 10 on the DAW.
2015/08/13 19:08:23
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Nobody will ever need more than 640k of RAM anyway, roight?
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Re: How I got ready for Win 10 on the DAW.
2015/08/14 10:12:21
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craigb
Nobody will ever need more than 640k of RAM anyway, roight?
As fast as things are going these days, pretty soon the word "memory" or "ram" will be a joke anyway! it was needed in the old days, but going forward, I doubt that these will be an issue.
Music is not about notes and chords! My poem is not about the computer or monitor or letters! It's about how I was able to translate it from my insides!
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Re: How I got ready for Win 10 on the DAW.
2015/08/14 10:23:49
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craigb
Nobody will ever need more than 640k of RAM anyway, roight?
As fast as things are going these days, pretty soon the word "memory" or "ram" will be a joke anyway! it was needed in the old days, but going forward, I doubt that these will be an issue.
Yes, a common problem with Alzheimer's.
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Re: How I got ready for Win 10 on the DAW.
2015/08/14 10:29:29
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bapu
It's been three years since I did my DAW build which means that it's time to replace my C: drive (samples and projects drives were already replaced in March).
I've yet to fill up my 500GB c:\ drive. Seagate ST3500413AS.
I've been told that the best cloned drive is same model if you highest rate or auth'd software to work withiout re-authing.
Found the same model dive for $36 delivered.
So my plan is clone my C: drive to the new one when Win 10 is available. As wll take an image. Install Win 10 on the old drive. Verify that all works. If so, re-clone old drive (now Win 10) to new drive. Re-image old drive back to Win 7 (as a 30 day revert safety net). Destroy old drive after 60 days.
Good plan?
Flaws?
I have used the old hard drives as backups ... you go to the computer shop, get a "drive enclosure" and put that drive in there, and it is USB, and it becomes a nice backup drive, that you can use when you need it, and if it dies next month, or next year, it only cost you 19.95 for the enclosure, but you have one extra backup! I have 3 of these and basically, if I want, it's 3 old drives that I can plug in to any computer.
Music is not about notes and chords! My poem is not about the computer or monitor or letters! It's about how I was able to translate it from my insides!
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craigb
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Re: How I got ready for Win 10 on the DAW.
2015/08/14 11:50:45
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It's cheaper to just get a "toaster" drive connector. Then you can just swap internal hard drives to your heart's content without having to put the drives into separate enclosures (which I used to do). 
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ampfixer
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Re: How I got ready for Win 10 on the DAW.
2015/08/14 16:55:52
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I have one of those but it's build into the top of my tower. Sort of like a 21st century 8 track player.
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Re: How I got ready for Win 10 on the DAW.
2015/08/14 16:57:14
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