Hello it's been awhile but am back and just updated to Producer X2 and decided to add some additional storage so I ordered and installed a 1TB 7200RPM 64MB SATA drive and am running Window 7 in 64 bit operation. The computer is a Compaq HP DX 7500 Microtower and it is recognizing the hardrive but has some things there that Windows automatically put on it that I'm not sure needs to go there.
 
Can you guys tell me how I should configure or what should go where as to the best optimization and smoothest operation ?

Anybody know someone I could contact for hardrive help ?

You can just reformat the drive using Mini Partition Tool (free, good tool), or something similar: http://download.cnet.com/MiniTool-Partition-Wizard-Home-Edition/3000-2094_4-10962200.html
 
For storage purposes, the NTFS defaults are fine.

Windows has the format command built in.  Go to Admin Tools, open up Computer Management, wait for the applet to load and then you can do all sorts of things to your drives.  For myself, I always move my BD and DVD drives to Y and Z.  That way if I add more hard drives, the Letters will not change.  You have control over every partition, hard drive and optical drives to format, make new, delete old, etc.

Hi,
Not sure what kind of config info you're looking for - however as others have said above, you can format the newly purchased drive into an NTFS partition directly from within Windows.  If you're struggling to do that - let us know and we can be more specific with instructions.
 
Regarding general views on what to store on each hard drive in multi-drive systems, a good approach is to separate applications from digital samples to maximize I/O throughput to your disks:
C: OS and applications (including Sonar)
Secondary drive - digital audio data (including your Sonar data files)
If you have a third drive in your system, put your sample libaries on the third drive and use the second drive just for Sonar audio files.
 
Hope that helps.
Russ
 

Thanks fellows and one more question. If I partition will it wipeout permanently what Windows threw on the D drive ? Should I move all of the files back to C before I partition the D drive  ?

If you create a new partition, it does render any existing data in that area of the disk inaccessible.  Windows will warn you to that fact before you create the partition.
 
If you're unsure what files were automatically installed to your D drive, you'd certainly wanna back them up somewhere at a minimum.  However I'd recommend trying to determine what those files are before proceeding with the partition.  Depending on what those files are - it may not be as simple as just moving them somewhere else - there may be hard coded file paths, etc.if those files include automatically generated .ini files from application installs, etc. 
 
You may wind up having to reinstall applications or manually edit some of those files if you just copy them somewhere else - the applications referencing those files won't know where to find them.
 
 

Thanks, makes sense and very helpful. I'll do what you guys told me and report back. Gracious !

ok, this is something I forgot to tell you guys. In computer when I open up the drive section beside the D: it says Recovery:D and I'm thinking I just need to repartiotion anyway but need to be sure. Is that an error code and if so what did I do wrong ?

No I don't think it's an error code.
 
First off, when you say Windows put something on the drive, what exactly is it that windows put on it? Is it system volume info? A $Recycle.Bin folder? That's default windows stuff. If you partition the drive and that will appear again.
 
Let me ask this: How many physical drives do you have on your system? How many drives are you showing in the Drive section of My Computer?
 
I wouldn't reformat a partition that's named "Recovery." That might be your systems recovery partition. It might not let you do it anyway as a safe measure.