Originally Posted by laddie (Post 83877)

This is why I started this thread in the first place and it happened again Sat. nite with Hoster 4.5. The only difference was that the everything stopped for only 5 or 6 seconds. I have tried to re-create this, but there is no rhyme or reason. I have two external drives, one for karaoke music and on for DJ music. It has never happened when running my DJ app(BPM Pro).
I have purchased a new drive, but all the diagnostics say the my drive is OK. I am going to hold off on changing for a while. It had been 30 days and 18 shows since this happened last. There is one difference in the two drives, the DJ drive is NTFS and the Karaoke drive is Fat32. If you have any insight I would love to hear it. :?:f

Originally Posted by ddouglass (Post 83892)

Laddie,
You need to convert that FAT32 drive to NTFS. I don't think this is related to your intermitant problem but is definately a security risk, not to mention that NTFS reads the disk faster than FAT32.
To do this click on START/RUN and type in "cmd" and hit Enter. When the window opens type "convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs " replacing "drive_letter with whatever the drive you are converting is (ie. D:, E:, F:, etc.) This will convert it without losing any data.

Originally Posted by laddie (Post 83895)

Yea,

Originally Posted by billyo (Post 83896)

don't forget to click on y when you get those 2 questions..dale forgot to mentioned:w

Originally Posted by ddouglass (Post 83892)

Laddie,
You need to convert that FAT32 drive to NTFS. I don't think this is related to your intermitant problem but is definately a security risk, not to mention that NTFS reads the disk faster than FAT32.
To do this click on START/RUN and type in "cmd" and hit Enter. When the window opens type "convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs " replacing "drive_letter with whatever the drive you are converting is (ie. D:, E:, F:, etc.) This will convert it without losing any data.

Originally Posted by laddie (Post 85485)

I did convert to NTFS, but is happend again Sat Nite. Everything stopped for about 10 seceonds and started back again. So I guess my next step is to swap the drive.

Originally Posted by marklwood (Post 85494)

Keep us posted on whether this fixes the issue or not. This is one of those interesting problems I would like to hear the answer to. I had something similar with a bluetooth dongle. The machine would freeze for a couple of seconds intermittently. I finally traced it to the driver that was loaded for the dongle. When I used the default windows driver, it went away....or maybe just hasn't happened again.