question about hard drives

[billyo]

i'm in the process of upgrading my hhd, just bought 4 ext.500gb hhd for my laptops, 1 hhd to use and 1 for back-up for ea. of my laptop, now my question is if something happens to the show hhd, will i be able to just swap hhd w/o rebuilding? or do i have to rebuild.

[ddouglass]

As long as the drive letter shows the same and the folders are identical on both drives then no you won't have to rebuild the database.

[billyo]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

As long as the drive letter shows the same and the folders are identical on both drives then no you won't have to rebuild the database.

thanks Dale, never had problems with the old hhd ,just got tired carrying all my laptop case with those big heavy ext. drives in it, had to replaced them with slim hhd's..anyway thanks again

[Musicman51]

billyo, i'm by no means an expert on this stuff. But i have 3 externals. My big WD MyBook, which is my security external. You've seen these, the big black heavy things. I keep that one at home. Then i carry two of those slim red WD Export usb hard drives for my shows. One i use, one i save for backup. Those two are identical, even the same color. Still i have to rebuild one, when downloading my new Chartbuster Monthly CD+G's. So, who knows. I know it's a pain, but i rebuild before every show. At my age, i can't remember which drive i used last..lol i know... i know....

[billyo]

Originally Posted by Musicman51

billyo, i'm by no means an expert on this stuff. But i have 3 externals. My big WD MyBook, which is my security external. You've seen these, the big black heavy things. I keep that one at home. Then i carry two of those slim red WD Export usb hard drives for my shows. One i use, one i save for backup. Those two are identical, even the same color. Still i have to rebuild one, when downloading my new Chartbuster Monthly CD+G's. So, who knows. I know it's a pain, but i rebuild before every show. At my age, i can't remember which drive i used last..lol i know... i know....

thanks for the adviced, Dale was right the drive letter changed, from F: to E: i just had to changed the letter back to E: and rebuilt, that's how i got it fixed, i bought 4 of those 500 gb seagate free agent slim design 2'5 ext. drive and i also have 2 of my old 500gb ext. hhd seagate and maxtor and 3 250 gb 2'5 maxtor ext. ( i used to used ) which i keep at home now.., just going thru each of my new drives and just found out that i still have some songs that i wasnt not able to copy..so here i am working on it again!!...got to get it done by friday..i have 2 big private parties ( mostly djing and a little bit of karaoke) back to back sat/sun..and i still have to create a playlist for the party on sun.( 18th b-day )and also i just bought a new ipod touch and still trying to figure out how to copy some of my itunes music in it, didnt have this problem on my old 80g ipod