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Old December 11th, 2006, 05:40 PM
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Second Hard Drive for Hoster

I have an HP dv8000 Notebook. The hard drive is getting pretty full. At first I thought about changing it out to a larger hard drive, but found out my notebook can hold two hard drives. Is there anyone using Hoster, that uses two hard drives? By that, I mean has songs on both drives. Can you setup your laptop to do a search in Hoster for songs, where it will check both hard drives? Or, can you only setup Hoster to one hard drive? Also, downloads... Can you setup Hoster to go to the second hard drive, once the first one is full? To make it simple, can you make two hard drives work like one?

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Old December 11th, 2006, 06:13 PM
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yes u can. the files can be in multiple locations.

but its important to make sure if you use an external drive, the drive letter stays the same.
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Old December 11th, 2006, 06:21 PM
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you can install a 120 gig for a second hard drive on that computer. However, you would be cheaper and better off to use an external usb hard drive.
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Old December 11th, 2006, 11:40 PM
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Is there anything I have to set up in the Hoster program to let it know, to also look in the second drive?

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Old December 12th, 2006, 06:55 AM
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just use the rebuild data base and point it to the new hard drive.

it sounds to me like you dont have a back up of all your .kma's

i would drag and drop them to a external drive.
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Old December 12th, 2006, 09:19 AM
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In the Rebuild Database window be sure to list both location paths.
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Old December 12th, 2006, 11:02 AM
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That is... Tools menu > Build Songs Database command at the very bottom. Click the "Select Folder" at the top in the Song source folder group box, locate your other drive and add it to the Source folder list box.

If you have mulitple folders on that drive, each holding KMA files, you will need to add each to this list.
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Old December 12th, 2006, 01:34 PM
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What a GREAT feature!

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Old December 12th, 2006, 01:52 PM
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Ernie, I would point out that if your primary drive is getting full you might want to move most or even all of your kma files to the second drive. Windows has a real problem with full C: drives. If there is not at least 25% (according to them but with overhead requirements should be 35%) of the drive space free then defragment program will not work correctly. I have found over the years that a 50% minimum free space level works the best and will keep Windows and your programs working the fastest.
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