How to use and external harddrive

[dlessnau]

I use a laptop for my shows and have my songs backed up on an external harddrive.

At some point, my 80 gig laptop harddrive will be full, so I would assume I would then use an external harddrive which is larger, to play from, instead of the internal harddrive.

My question is, how do I get the laptop to play from the external unit instead of the internal?

Would it be possible, down the road to install a larger internal drive in the laptop?

[MTUSUPPORT]

Dave,
You would add your .kma files to your External Hard drive by copying them over to that drive from your Laptop Internal Hard drive. Then you would just have to run the Build Songs Database, with the songs folder as the one on the External Hard drive.

When larger hard drives become available for the Laptops, you should beable to upgrade at least larger than the 80GB drive. I am not aware of what the limit would be of the system, at this time since the 80 is the largest that is currently made.

[swaseysd]

Dave:

I have all my Hoster files on an external 180-GB hard drive. My operating system and the Hoster application itself reside on my laptop's hard drive but all my music is on the external hard drive.

When you're importing songs, you tell Hoster where you want the songs to be stored. If you used to store them on your C Drive in a directory called C:\Karaoke but you now want them on your external drive, let's say D:\Karaoke, then just plug that information in and all new imported songs will be stored there.

For files already existing on your C Drive, you can simply change the location of the files in the SONGS.MDB database. Contact me if you want to find out how to do that.

Steve

[kenpattx]

hello Steve if you could would you give me a step by step on changing the path to an external hard drive, I have a shuttle with an 80 gig harddrive its full I want to go with a large external, but don't know how to make it read from the other drive.thanks ....I met my wife in Dayton, we'll be married 46 years in july......we left dayton in 1964 moved to LA now living in east Texas
thanks agian

[Beavis]

all you have to do is drag and drop all your kma's to the new drive then rebuild your database to point to the new drive.

of coarse dont forget to turn the external hard drive on and connect it to the computer.

[kenpattx]

HERE IS MY PROBLEM: We purchased an MTU laptop in Feb 2003, to use as primary computer for karaoke shows. We then purchased an MTU Shuttle as a back up to the Laptop in the event the laptop failed. We we originally loaded our CDG discs, we loaded them into an external 80 gig hd, (not the 40 gig hd in the laptop) We then loaded the cdg's from that external hd into the Shuttle 80 gig hd's.(both computers hd's were kept identical) NOW, our problem, we have been out of space for some time, so we bought 300 gig hard drive and simply copied the cdg's from the 80 gig external onto the new 300 gig ext. hd. Been using it that way for quite some time. BUT now,...our laptop has just basically disintegrated, it quite literally

[kenpattx]

HERE IS MY PROBLEM: We purchased an MTU laptop in Feb 2003, to use as primary computer for karaoke shows. We then purchased an MTU Shuttle as a back up to the Laptop in the event the laptop failed. When we originally loaded our CDG discs, we loaded them into an external 80 gig hd, (not the 40 gig hd in the laptop) We then loaded the cdg's from that external hd into the Shuttle 80 gig hd's.(both computers hd's were kept identical) THEN, a problem, we have been out of space for some time, so we bought 300 gig hard drive and simply copied the cdg's from the 80 gig external onto the new 300 gig ext. hd. Been using it that way for quite some time with the laptop. BUT now,...our laptop has just basically disintegrated, and we must switch and use our MTU Shuttle as our primary operating computer. Problem we now have is...the Shuttle only has 80 gigs (remember it has the mirrored 2 hard drives in it) and we need to be able to switch and use our 300 gig hard drive (same one that we used with our laptop) I have tried but have failed so far. I rebuilt database, but it didn't work. Please, I need detailed information as to what I need to do. Thanks Ken and Pat...Texas

[Beavis]

Originally Posted by kenpattx

HERE IS MY PROBLEM: We purchased an MTU laptop in Feb 2003, to use as primary computer for karaoke shows. We then purchased an MTU Shuttle as a back up to the Laptop in the event the laptop failed. When we originally loaded our CDG discs, we loaded them into an external 80 gig hd, (not the 40 gig hd in the laptop) We then loaded the cdg's from that external hd into the Shuttle 80 gig hd's.(both computers hd's were kept identical) THEN, a problem, we have been out of space for some time, so we bought 300 gig hard drive and simply copied the cdg's from the 80 gig external onto the new 300 gig ext. hd. Been using it that way for quite some time with the laptop. BUT now,...our laptop has just basically disintegrated, and we must switch and use our MTU Shuttle as our primary operating computer. Problem we now have is...the Shuttle only has 80 gigs (remember it has the mirrored 2 hard drives in it) and we need to be able to switch and use our 300 gig hard drive (same one that we used with our laptop) I have tried but have failed so far. I rebuilt database, but it didn't work. Please, I need detailed information as to what I need to do. Thanks Ken and Pat...Texas

i bet your laptop is full of dust !! the cpu is probably so clogged it cant breath!

[ddouglass]

Ken,
Can you see the 300 gig drive from windows explorer?

You will probably need to delete the songs.mdb and the backup.mdb (on C:\).
Then from within Hoster go to Tools/Build Database.
Change the drive\folder to the 300 gig's drive letter\folder where your kma files are located.
Then build database.

That should reset your songs as they were on the laptop.

By the way where in East Texas are you? We work out of Cleveland area.

[MTUSUPPORT]

Do exactly as DDouglas has stated.

Also what is the problem with the Laptop?

Also, here is a FAQ on this: http://www.mtu.com/support/faq/faq-h...eKMAFileFolder

[kenpattx]

BRYAN I followed your instructions, and still have problems with the shuttle.. I Deleted the songs.mdb and backup.mdb on C and rebuilt database to Feb10(my file name). during the rebuild process, 'song db log' file could not be opened, came up and you have to click ok, then it finishes. When testing, it still uses the C: files. F/feb10 doesn't work. also during rebuild "318"duplicate book id's detected pops up as well as database already exists pops up. I believe what I need is to delete the MTU program and all files associated with it, and reinstall the entire MTU program as if it was brand new. I guess there's just too much junk in it to be able to figure it out. Do you think this is the best solution for me. and is there any risk if I do that? What would you suggest? Can I get your help by phone??? I'd like to do that complete reinstall on my laptop also. Do you think it could be reconditioned? The usb ports appear to be worn out. We use all 4 of them every show and that is a lot of plugging and unplugging. I called Doug to buy the newest update, but haven't heard back from him yet. He has my phone number, or I will call you if you will help me. Thanks in advance Pat