spring cleaning

[Chewy]

drf,
whenever you get ready to reload windows, get as much data as you can on the old drive, make a backup to cd/dvd of real essential stuff. Burn all large video on good media.
now boot to the windows cd and delete the partition on the new drive, make a primary partition no larger than 25-30 gigs, for a lean specialized setup, I use 15 GB. After windows is loaded you can go back into manage and make another partition(extended) and a logical drive for data.
Just to be safe have your old drive disconnected during the install, I once deleted 160 gigs of data this way, that's why I always keep 2 backups.

[futurex]

I once deleted 160 gigs of data this way

damn that must've sucked

[Chewy]

took about half a day to round up the other backups(scattered out) and reload the master data drive, a few years ago we spent weeks digitizing a large music library at a large club onto a raid stripe with 2 ibm 40 gig drives.
The DJ's trash the cd's changing them out all night, one drive died after 6
months, that work was lost. I spent 2 weeks digitizing a karaoke collection,
I backed up every day.

[futurex]

happened to me once too, though i only lost my FLAC audio collection. it was a real pain, took ages to rip and encode all those cds again

i have an external 250GB drive. back up daily as well. cant afford (literally) data loss

[uufta]

Just wanted to thank you all for the Tips

Blu's Microsoft Safety Center link worked very well, Cynthias System File Checker Guide is now a part of my wall postings, and Crap Cleaner worked very well, I let it analyze then I closed my eyes and pushed the Clean Button and everything still works

I know thats the irresponsible way, but there was way to much to go thru one by one, thank god for backups when you have guys like me

thankyou all
gc

[drfsupercenter]

I spent 2 weeks digitizing a karaoke collection,
I backed up every day.

Just curious if you know where to get instrumentals from. I have a collection going, but there are many I cannot find. I figure DJs would know LOL

[Chewy]

we have used several large suppliers usually buying sets at a good discount.
like 30 disks,

[drfsupercenter]

Are they studio versions? Or cheap ones?

I can get rap ones no problem from select sites, but some of them are impossible to find. I don't wanna pay for them, as many are different and not "official"

[Chewy]

they are professional ones and cost a pretty penny, but in bulk are 50% off,
the problem is they are extremely delicate, which is why we went digital

[drfsupercenter]

Hmm, you know any sites that have them for free? Also, what type of music are they? Rap/pop/rock/whatever

[Chewy]

no karaoke for free unless you use nero to mute the vocals but we need the
hidden video track that puts the lyrics on the tv screen

[drfsupercenter]

hmmm, I mean official as in not karaoke mixes, but studio produced.

How do you use Nero to mute the vocals? I had to use AV Music Morpher for that.

http://drfsupercenter.3lo.net/Music/Boulevard%20of%20Broken%20Dreams%20(Instrumental).mp3

That's what I am talking about... that came off Bullet in a Bible DVD. Although I can't find any other Green Day instrumentals

You got any of those? Rap songs are easy, I have tons of studio released ones, not too hard to find.

[tonysmith1929]

Hi Mr Blu..... I used the new free Ms cleaner yesterday... It took 10 minutes, and me another 2 hours to re find all my files,including decrypted videos, which it sent all over the place !!!!!! In the end had to use restore point to make PC usable.......Never again.......

[uufta]

Thats why whenever you activate something that says "BETA", you have to be ready for unforseen outcomes.
It worked great on my machine....

gc