timidi


Everything that bit said is what I think and do.
Check that all drivers are available for your hardware and win7-64.

That should be the first step.  I tried to load Windows 8 and ran into driver and software issues.
 
Windows 7 is loaded and running fine.
 
-JJ

My setup works so darn well? It's 8.3 Pro w/XP on a Quadcore? 

I can load it up and push those CPUs up in the red, but that takes some pretty big projects. I'm tempted to ride this horse as long as I can... "Because it runs well" And it does everything I need it to do. 

If it works.... I'd ride that horse. 

As long as mine works and does what I want.... I'm good with 32bits. When it dies, then we'll be looking at the new 64 bit.... well, it'll probably be 128bit by then.... 


On the c drive thing... I had a C drive crash on me on a different computer. (2 diff times) 

On the first one, the boot sector was damaged some how.... I installed a new drive installed the OS and then took the old c drive and connected it as a slave drive.... back in the days of jumpers.... I was able to read the data on it and salvage/copy/paste the files out to another drive. 

On the second..... the drive didn't hard crash, but was flaky and would boot sometimes and sometimes not.... so I got a new drive and it came with some cloning software.... I followed the instructions to the letter. Literally 15 minutes later, I had a fully functional new C drive which was a clone of the old one. I only had to reinstall 2 of the applications, everything else cloned and ran perfectly. 

Cactus Music


I only keep a 100 Gig partition for my C drive and put only the bare bones stuff on it. If it dies it's only a few hours work for me.

What I have done is only install the OS, then Sonar and Wave Lab. Then latter if I need a program I'll install it then. You'd be surprised what you don't need. All my software and VSt's  are on the Data drive ready to install when needed. 

I totally agree with this statement.
I keep smaller drives and nothing over 500,
I don't care what anyone tells you its a debate over large hd tests.
but stick small for os and sonar.
 
imagine looking for a cd in a room that was 40 x 40 ?
now imagine looking for that same cd in a room that's 10 x 10.
which room will be faster to find that data ?
 
those rooms are HD's