laptop crashes with ATI video card but easy fix

[bryant]

Originally Posted by kip777

Hard drive should be at least 100GB split 20/80 or 25/75 with KMA & music on D:\ drive. If you need to reinstall the OS this is the way to go. The KMA files need to be backed up to another physical drive; you don’t want to rip/convert twice. My 9,736 songs are 46.8 GB.

What do you mean by this statement, specifically?

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by bryant

What do you mean by this statement, specifically?

Bryant, You can create partitions on a hard drive dividing it into multiple drive letters. Each part has its own letter so what he is saying is with a 100 GB physical drive he creates a C: drive of 25 GB and a D: drive with 75 GB.

[kip777]

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Bryant , what I am referring to is partitioning the drive so the OS is on the smaller portion and the Karaoke and music files are on the larger partition so if it crashes and the OS needs to be reinstalled you wont have to transfer those files to the drive, it’s just a time saver. If the hard drive was to fail those files need to be available on another hard drive either USB/Firewire removable or a network computer (very slow transfer rate compared to removable) so you haven’t lost your data and don’t have to rip/convert all those discs again.

I really like to be redundant, I’ll have 3 sets of identical file sets, one on the computer I use, one on removable storage and a cloned drive of the computer stored at a different location in case the house burns down or blows up, things get stolen, whatever the case might be.

I’m also a lazy guy so after the computer is setup the way I want it I’ll create an image of my drive so if things do go bad I don’t have to install the OS and all the programs I’ve installed and remove the bloatware from the manufacture and tweak it the way I want it all over again, I don’t have to validate windows or update things, it’s a real time saver, a one step process instead of days.

[bryant]

I see, thanx. That's pretty much how I do it. Have two backup drives for music and kma files and a cloned drive.

One might say "We are organized out of laziness!".