Loosing your C drive is GREAT!

[Lee Knight]

I detailed my system drive failure in the "Loosing your C drive Sucks" thread. The good news?

 

Pro Tools has never run better. It's dramatic how sludgy my system had got, and how limber it is now. A fresh install of XP and PT on a newly formatted, shiny new drive.

 

Vvvvrrroooom. Nice...

[Kendrix]

Yeah- Ive had the same experience after re-formatting

If you want to maintain it that way I'd keep that machine off the net- (that infinite source of malicious bits)

 

Ive also noted how all the layers and layers of OS stuff that is irrelevant to a standalone music making machine slow thinhgs down.

Hell, an old 486 with Windows 3.0 when doing non compute-intensive stuff like wordprocessing or sequencing is more responsive than todays average net-focused XP machine is.

 

IMHO- Despite linux and Apple, the lack of serious competition to windoze is really impacting progress/choices on that platform lately. Also note how little innovation has occurred in the office apps over the past few years. Yet they will still manage to offer new versions that force you to upgrade in order to stay compatable. Arrrrggg.

[UstadKhanAli]

I did that before with my Mac, and everything ran so much faster it was unreal.

 

And it looks like I may have to do it again since I'm getting this "invalid node structure" sign (although I'll try Disk Warrior first and see what happens). But yeah, there's nothing like reformatting your drive to make everything run like new.

[Is There Gas In The Car?]

I understand your glee, Lee.

 

However, you NEVER want to lose data.

 

I figure that most people rarely do maintenance on their hard disk. Scandisk will check for errors, detect bad sectors and move data from them to good sectors, it will detect lost files. Defrag will keep the R/W heads from working overtime finding file fragments and will speed up access time. So many folks just don't care. Therefore, drives die long before they should.

 

This is just a friendly public service reminder to folks: back up your data & perform regular maintenance on your drives. It will make your life easier.

 

[Lee Knight]

Originally posted by Gas in the Car? I understand your glee, Lee. However, you NEVER want to lose data. I figure that most people rarely do maintenance on their hard disk. Scandisk will check for errors, detect bad sectors and move data from them to good sectors, it will detect lost files. Defrag will keep the R/W heads from working overtime finding file fragments and will speed up access time. So many folks just don't care. Therefore, drives die long before they should. This is just a friendly public service reminder to folks: back up your data & perform regular maintenance on your drives. It will make your life easier.

 

Yeah, I understand your point, thanks.

[Is There Gas In The Car?]

Originally posted by Lee Knight Yeah, I understand your point, thanks.

 

Ooops. I just read your other thread, Lee. (I'm late to the party.)

 

I apologize. ...Didn't mean to rub salt into the wound.

 

Tom

[kylen]

Actually if I just wash & wax my case it seems to run a little faster...maybe it's just me!

[philbo]

I've found that any PC works better when the Windows installation is less than 6 months old.

 

So I do just that - reformat C: & reinstall Windows & all apps every 6 months. (Data is on a partition in a different physical drive)

[the stranger]

 

Originally posted by philbo I've found that any PC works better when the Windows installation is less than 6 months old. So I do just that - reformat C: & reinstall Windows & all apps every 6 months. (Data is on a partition in a different physical drive)

 

 

I agree 100%. What's funny is back when I was using 98, I did a re-format at regular 6 month intervals. It seemed to be the only way to keep 98 running smooth.

After getting a newer system with XP, I haven't done a re-format since I got it (which may be about 3 years or so). It is just so much more stable, I haven't wanted to go through the work of doing the dreaded back-ups and re-format.

I guess XP has made me lazy. That and the fact that I've only had one crash with XP, and that was Media Player getting screwy with a DVD.

I'm definitely due for a fresh install, though.

[Is There Gas In The Car?]

I hate to agree, but I must.

 

Last night I was working on my PC... minding my own business, when a box appeared.

 

It said Viewsonic media player (or something similar) has just updated. Click UPDATE to update your browser with a new pop-up blocker and search function menu bar.

 

Normally, I'd just click on the CLOSE option and be done with it. However, there WAS NO CLOSE OPTION.

 

So I called up Windows Task Manager to end the program from there. AND IT WASN'T LISTED.

 

I ended up having to reboot the machine. Once I did, I went into ADD/DELETE PROGRAMS and deleted every instance of this program on my computer.

 

Now what if I had been a little old lady who just got a PC for Christmas and hadn't had time to read "Windows XP for Dummies"? I probably would have clicked on the UPDATE option just to get this message outta my face.

 

I hate people who write pop-ups like this. And it's just this reason why it's often a good thing to BACK UP EVERYTHING then type those magic words: FORMAT C:

 

Wipe it out, then reinstall without the nasty programs that drive us all crazier.

 

Tom