geting a new hard disk. got some questions

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geting a new hard disk. got some questions

Postby bum » Thu Jul 15, 2004 1:33 pm

im geting a new hard disk tomorow (which i should have got today. but errr, some dodgy problems with the company that the comp shop im geting it from was having. lack of sulpies. and then i got realy pissed and a freind started laughing at me, then i called him a hypocrite because he used too call his isp like 5 times a day when he was upgrading his conection and it took them forever but i never laughed at him about it, but thats because i allways dl stuff with his broadband when im at his place. then we had a fight and stuff, then we just went and played track mania. and thats my diary entry for today).

but anyway, im geting a seagate 120GB/8MBcache/pata100 drive (and ive allready got a 40GB disk). what i wana do is have my 40GB as the primary disk for installing programs and probably games. and my 120GB drive i wana split into two partitions. one for backing up videos/programs/music and that sort of thing. and the other mainly for video editing. with the way i edit i usualy end up with 50MB/epp divx files (vegas has no problem using them) and then use the bait and switch method with vob files. but curently ive only doen this with basic amv's that have no effects/transitions, just normal clips put togeather. so two questions.

1 - how should i split the 120GB drive for back-up/vid editing ?

2 - if i use the bait and switch with vob files, in more complex amv's with fansy keyframed effects and stuff, will it still turn out as its supose to or will i get wierd scrambled footage or something ?
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Postby aznfs » Thu Jul 15, 2004 1:48 pm

:? just off of the top of my head i would say use partition magic for spliting the hard drive

but for the bait and switch :lol: i dont do it actually most of the time just use dv/avi files so i dont know about that sorries
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Postby bum » Thu Jul 15, 2004 2:03 pm

well im gona reinstall winxp when i get the drive and all the partitioning and stuff im just gona do from thier, as in the winxows disk (its simple, clean, and works) .
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Postby oldwrench » Thu Jul 15, 2004 5:42 pm

Your new drive should come with installation software, just follow the instructions and you should be ok. You don't need to reinstall xp. I don't know why you would want more than one partition if you only have one os.
If you want to, install the drive, start the computer, right click on the my computer icon and click on manage drives, right click on the new drive and use the format sys built into xp,
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Postby bum » Thu Jul 15, 2004 10:30 pm

well, the reason i want to reinstall winxp is because my files are curently everywhere. start>programs is almost two rows big, theirs only space for about 8 more icons on my desktop, my documents is filled with so much crap all over the place. and the state of my d drive is just scary. basicaly my pc's a mess and i wana start over when i get my new disk. im even deleting all my source files and re-encoding them, just to make things beter
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Postby Scintilla » Fri Jul 16, 2004 12:23 am

oldwrench wrote:I don't know why you would want more than one partition if you only have one os.

To make it easier to do things like defragging, among other reasons.
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Postby shirohamada » Fri Jul 16, 2004 6:39 am

if you haven't reinstal windows for the last 6 months its a good time to do, if you do have the time
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Postby bum » Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:13 am

well as soon as i get the disk (supose to get it today. woke up at 1pm, the shop closed early. barstards) im gona start re-encoding all my dvd's for editing, and im backing up alot of my files, esspecialy programs, to disk before i do anything. so basicaly i want my pc clean when i get the new disk
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Postby the Black Monarch » Fri Jul 16, 2004 4:53 pm

May I recommend an ATA133 drive (Maxtor) instead of an ATA100?
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Postby madmag9999 » Fri Jul 16, 2004 5:01 pm

ata 133 is better. but maxtors suck. get a western digital or seagate.
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Postby aznfs » Fri Jul 16, 2004 5:03 pm

madmag9999 wrote:ata 133 is better. but maxtors suck. get a western digital or seagate.


funny i have all those brands in my computer or connected to it at least :lol:

40gb maxtor
40gb seagate
200gb western digi
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Postby madmag9999 » Fri Jul 16, 2004 5:06 pm

i have a maxtor as well and im not satisfied at all. its the 5th one they had to send it to me :? and klinky had problems with them to if i remember correctly. i really like westerndigitals and seagates are ok.
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Postby aznfs » Fri Jul 16, 2004 5:18 pm

madmag9999 wrote:i have a maxtor as well and im not satisfied at all. its the 5th one they had to send it to me :? and klinky had problems with them to if i remember correctly. i really like westerndigitals and seagates are ok.


i hope i dont have any prolems with my maxtor cause its my boot drive
though ive had it for several years now and nothing seems to be wrong with it
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Postby shirohamada » Fri Jul 16, 2004 11:51 pm

if you get a new nobo, one that have serial ATA is nice, i do, and its mighty fast, not the 10k rpm raptor though.
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Postby bum » Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:59 am

ive heard that the difference between ata100 and ata133 isnt realy noticable.

my 20GB maxtor drive has bein running fine for the beter part of 3 years, though il probaly sell it to some guy for $20-$40 once i put in my new hard disk

oh and, i got my mobo just as sata compatible mobo's were being intruduced, and mine didnt have sata, which sux. then again, sata150 probaly isnt much faster than pata100
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