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Taking care of the PC
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Sound Surgeon
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Posted : Mar 17, 2006 20:51
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What are the recommended ways to take care of the music working computer?
Are there any ways to backup everything inculding installed plugins and software so after installing a new windows you will not haave to install each program? The backup will work and do it by itself?
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diskOtek
Entek
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Posted : Mar 17, 2006 21:26
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defragment your disc!!
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Colin OOOD
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Posted : Mar 17, 2006 21:37
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Meta
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Posted : Mar 17, 2006 21:59
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I use Norton Ghost at work, it's great for taking complete snapshot images of your hard drive. It saves your entire hard drive into a single image file.
It takes some time to do, and obviously you need to have a second hard drive with a lot of empty space on it, depending on how big the original HD is.
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Sound Surgeon
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Posted : Mar 17, 2006 22:31
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Do you back up all of your studio hard drive by norton ghost?
What if the hd dies, backup is needed. I Lost all of my tracks like that a few years ago.
Defragment is known, but what about those softwares like, system mechanic or spybot. System clean programs, worth any good? |
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Colin OOOD
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Posted : Mar 17, 2006 22:41
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Zugonik
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Posted : Mar 17, 2006 23:03
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Yeah Yeah...It's better to prevent....defragment your disc...keep it clean use Regmechanic lookout for spyware don't install crap...u know the usual stuff.....n keep always a good backup of ur stuff.... Use Norton Ghost....It's not the better Soft but has people say it works..!!! Buy ( If U Can ) yourself some used HDisc (at Least 40gb ) n use it only to backup's it usualy works 4me... i have 200gb disc just 4 backups..... n after some time i passed them to Dual Layer DVD |
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e-motion
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Posted : Mar 17, 2006 23:17
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- have 2 HD... this is essential. one for installed programs and another for downloads, projects, works, everything. if not make partitions. this way you can format without problems.
- get an external disk. the price difference is little. this is the BEST backup system... much better than CD and DVD
- you don't to backup the installed stuff... just install it again  a fresh format+reinstall is always good for your machine.
this is my way |
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tribalizer
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Posted : Mar 18, 2006 00:49
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i use TuneUp Utilities 2006 and am VERY happy with it!
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Freeflow
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Posted : Mar 18, 2006 01:05
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e-motion - the more harddrives the noiser it gets...
i think a external drive would be good for backup, what do you think?
i will get a new cooling system next month or so, cooling by low dB fans...
what would you suggest for low noise fans?
also im thinking of putting my machine inside a box to minimize noise even more...
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Colin OOOD
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Posted : Mar 18, 2006 01:06
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tribalizer
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Posted : Mar 18, 2006 01:50
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well..i find its a very complete set of tools, and is very effective, snappy, and simple.
i dont know about the others, but this one works very good for me !
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Colin OOOD
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Posted : Mar 18, 2006 02:57
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sideFXed
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Posted : Mar 18, 2006 07:21
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disconnect your daw from internet if possible.
if you still want to have internet on your daw, have another computer (maybe in another room) to act as a proxy/firewall. this way you don't need a cpu hungry firewall on your machine.
get a separate partition for audio work... no ethernet, nothing, just audio
personally I never use all in one system tweak utilities... all they do is reproducable with normal windows tweaking (regedit, services.msc etc etc.)
a combo between spybot, adaware free and bazooka spyware cleaner should eradicate any hazardous spyware
I like one tool tho, it's called cachemanxp... it kinda frees up physical memory... often it purges ram that doesn't free up automatically in win... for example while using large samplelibraries etc.
set windows to put your virtual memory onto a separate physical harddrive.
buy s-ata drives they rock for audio production
oh well I don't think that's really what you've asked for but I was in the mood to write some useless stuff. hope you all don't mind hehe
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Sound Surgeon
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Posted : Mar 18, 2006 13:08
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On 2006-03-18 07:21, sideFXed wrote:
disconnect your daw from internet if possible.
if you still want to have internet on your daw, have another computer (maybe in another room) to act as a proxy/firewall. this way you don't need a cpu hungry firewall on your machine.
get a separate partition for audio work... no ethernet, nothing, just audio
personally I never use all in one system tweak utilities... all they do is reproducable with normal windows tweaking (regedit, services.msc etc etc.)
a combo between spybot, adaware free and bazooka spyware cleaner should eradicate any hazardous spyware
I like one tool tho, it's called cachemanxp... it kinda frees up physical memory... often it purges ram that doesn't free up automatically in win... for example while using large samplelibraries etc.
set windows to put your virtual memory onto a separate physical harddrive.
buy s-ata drives they rock for audio production
oh well I don't think that's really what you've asked for but I was in the mood to write some useless stuff. hope you all don't mind hehe
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thnaks for great advices!
its not useless, actually i find very good information for the future!
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