Hard Drive Configuration for Logic Studio 9

Based on a lot of prior feedback on this forum, we plan to utilize three separate hard drives on a Mac Pro for Logic 9 -- The System Drive, plus a separate work drive to store and work on the audio/MIDI files, and another hard drive dedicated to sound libraries. My question is, when we go about loading the sound libraries and their engines, do we load them onto the system drive (where Logic will live) and then just copy the actual sample/loop folders to the other hard drive? Or perhaps we should load the entire library and all its files onto the dedicated sound library drive?
As an example, when loading EWQL Symphonic Gold, do we load the PLAY engine onto the system drive and then load the Symph Gold Library onto the dedicated hard drive? Same question for ToonTracks, Superior Drummer 2.0 (VSSD Box) and Big Fish Audio Mojo and First Call Horns which I both believe will run with the newest Kontakt 4.0 engine.
We want to access these various libraries from inside Logic 9. How do we install the engines versus the actual sounds?

heelo blayzay
thanks for the reply and assistance.
1) how can i create a back up set for the 4th HD to be make back up of the 2nd and 3rd HD
2) what about to make 1st HD for system and 2nd3rd4th (1.5TB) for audio recording, and an external drive for backups ?
For the back ups , is there a special process for the backing up HD (internal or external) ? Or should i just need a Clone software to make the back up
thank you again.

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Which is the optimal hard drive configuration for Logic Pro ?

hello people
i would like to ask your advices about possible hard drive configurations for Logic Pro
I have a Mac Pro and thinking to buy 4 x 500GB drives .
there are several combinations in my mind to configure , but first of all i would like to ask which is the best for an optimal system for Logic Pro
model 1 :
1 stripe Raid 0 array drive for ''System'' (500+500 = 1000)
1 stripe Raid 0 array drive for ''recording + sound banks'' (500 + 500 = 1000)
which means to using 4 hard drives as 2 drives
model 2 :
1 stripe Raid 0 array drive for ''System'' (500+500 = 1000)
1 Single drive for Sound banks (500)
1 Single drive for Recording (500)
which means to using 4 hard drives as 3 drives
Or , it is more healthy to use the drives as single , without raid , stripe sets but with its own capacity instead of combining .
and also if someone has an idea regarding to compare of Seagate and Westerndigital drives (which is the best for audio recording) , would be really helpfull
I am kinda rookie for these subjects :/
thanks in advance

heelo blayzay
thanks for the reply and assistance.
1) how can i create a back up set for the 4th HD to be make back up of the 2nd and 3rd HD
2) what about to make 1st HD for system and 2nd3rd4th (1.5TB) for audio recording, and an external drive for backups ?
For the back ups , is there a special process for the backing up HD (internal or external) ? Or should i just need a Clone software to make the back up
thank you again.

New Hard Drive Errors for Logic Studio????

I have just replaced my system drive and used Carbon Copy cloner to clone to the new drive from my back up. For some reason when I attempt to open certain Locig songs, I get an error message that says "Registry error, please ensure this product has been installed properly" I have reinstalled to the new hard drive and still certain songs will cause this message????? It's weird how only certain song projects cause this..??? Please HELP!! I have trashed preferrences, and repaired permissions, and am desperate to figure this out.??? HELPPPPP!!!!!

To be honest, your messages are a little bit confusing…
First of all its not clear to me if you created the Recovery Disk in the past.
Please check this HowTo document “How to use the TOSHIBA Recovery Media Creator”
http://aps2.toshiba-tro.de/kb0/HTD16036F0000R01.htm
If recovery disk creation would not work, here is a page where you could order the essential disks: http://backupmedia.toshiba.eu
The recovery disk will help you to recover the notebook back to factory settings even using new HDD.

Hard Drive configuration for speed

I've got a question regarding the best hard drive configuration for my mac pro. I'm looking to increase the boot speed, application load speed and particularly the speed with which hard drive intensive photoshop processes complete. Right now I'm just using some normal SATA II drives. I'd appreciate it if you could give me some feedback on the various options I am currently considering.
-2x 64GB SSD in a RAID 0 for OS X and applications with some large SATA drives for storage
-4x 300GB VelociRaptor 10k RPM SATA HDD in a RAID 0
-2x 147GB SAS 15k RPM HDD in RAID 0 with some large SATA drives for storage
I am particularly in the dark about the controllers I'd use for each solution. Clearly, I would absolutely require a PCIe card for the SAS drives, but would there be a marked advantage to using a hardware RAID card for the SATA drives over the software RAID in OS X? Also, how easy is it to get the mac pro to boot off drives connected to a controller card rather than the standard setup? And lastly, if there is good reason to use a card, are there any in particular that you would recommend?
Thanks a lot!

2. No. Do not make two partitions unless you do not plan to use Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows on that partition. If you plan to create a Boot Camp partition then you must partition the drive as one Mac OS X volume. Boot Camp Assistant will then create the Windows volume.
3. This drive must be repartitioned and reformatted as follows:
Extended Hard Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to two. Use the graphic resizer to set the desired sizes for each volume as you want. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID (only required for Intel Macs) then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the first volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
7. Select the second volume you created and repeat Steps 4-6.
4. Now here I don't know what you think is your best option. You can buy any two hard drives you want. The ones I identified were only an example of what you could purchase for under $300. There are others, slightly more expensive, that would work, and you would still be under your $300 budget. The Samsung drives are good drives and reasonably priced, but they are just one of several alternatives. You should do some checking on your own before making your decision. I'm just giving some guidance, not trying to tell you what you should do. I've provided three sites where you can read reviews and benchmarks before you decide. You need to "own" your decision.
As for how you configure these two drives that's a secondary issue. I would recommend using them for backup. Two possible arrangements are a Mirrored or a Striped RAID array. A mirrored RAID array would create one volume that has a 1 TB capacity. Everything saved to that volume is essentially saved twice - once on one drive then a copy is mirrored to the other drive. This is not what you described in your Item 4. That's not how it works. Anything saved to the mirrored RAID array is saved the way I described it just above. It makes no difference where the files come from.
Now you can use the mirrored RAID array as a Time Machine backup drive if you want, but then you should not use it for other data storage. You would need the entire capacity as backup for both of the 500 GB drives you currently have. A mirrored RAID provides some data redundancy by having a copy of everything one each drive. Thus, if one drive fails the other drive still functions and your data backup is intact. Mirrored RAIDs are generally no faster than an individual drive that makes up the array.
The second suggestion was to make a Striped RAID array. This type of array produces one volume that is twice the size of the the two drives that make up the array. Thus, you would have a single volume that is 2 TBs in size. You can use this volume for your Time Machine backups also. Striped RAIDs do not provide any data redundancy. If one drive fails all the data stored on the RAID will be lost. However, Striped RAIDs are nearly twice as fast as either drive that makes up the array. This would give you very fast storage and backup.
You could also just leave the two drives to operate independently. Use on for Time Machine backups, use the other for more storage space.
Other possibilities abound. It's pretty much up to you to decide what will fit best into your needs today and in the future. Don't feel obliged to do what one person tells you. Five different users on the Discussions will give five different opinions.
I suggest you educate yourself a bit on backup and restore by reading the FAQ about backup and restore at The XLab FAQs.
Following is more information on RAIDs:
RAID Basics
For basic definitions and discussion of what a RAID is and the different types of RAIDs see RAIDs. Additional discussions plus advantages and disadvantages of RAIDs and different RAID arrays see:
RAID Tutorial;
RAID Array and Server: Hardware and Service Comparison>.
Hardware or Software RAID?
RAID Hardware Vs RAID Software - What is your best option?
RAID is a method of combining multiple disk drives into a single entity in order to improve the overall performance and reliability of your system. The different options for combining the disks are referred to as RAID levels. There are several different levels of RAID available depending on the needs of your system. One of the options available to you is whether you should use a Hardware RAID solution or a Software RAID solution.
RAID Hardware is always a disk controller to which you can cable up the disk drives. RAID Software is a set of kernel modules coupled together with management utilities that implement RAID in Software and require no additional hardware.
Pros and cons
Software RAID is more flexible than Hardware RAID. Software RAID is also considerably less expensive. On the other hand, a Software RAID system requires more CPU cycles and power to run well than a comparable Hardware RAID System. Also, because Software RAID operates on a partition by partition basis where a number of individual disk partitions are grouped together as opposed to Hardware RAID systems which generally group together entire disk drives, Software RAID tends be slightly more complicated to run. This is because it has more available configurations and options. An added benefit to the slightly more expensive Hardware RAID solution is that many Hardware RAID systems incorporate features that are specialized for optimizing the performance of your system.
For more detailed information on the differences between Software RAID and Hardware RAID you may want to read: Hardware RAID vs. Software RAID: Which Implementation is Best for my Application?
OS X has software for creating RAIDs by using Disk Utility. Open Disk Utility and select DU Help from the Help menu. Search for "raid" without quotes. You will find information on how to set up mirrored and striped RAIDs using Disk Utility.

Hard Drive Configure for MacBook Pro HD Editing

Can someone give me some advice on a two hard drive configuration that could be hot swappable.
I was told that I need two hard drives together to maximize speed for Proress 10 bit hd editing. Can you explain how configuring two hard drives gives me more speed to give me more real time cap.
I have seen a Lacie 2big swappable ext hard drive system and if I get the e sata connection. would that be fast enough if so what Raid system would be best.
Thanks for any input.

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FirewireVR
S2VR Duo
Explaination of the various RAID levels:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StandardRAIDlevels
what Raid system would be best.
For...? What type of footage are you trying to work with? RAID 5 is the best...Protection and speed. Look at the HDone for that. And look at www.maxxdigtial.com, sonnettech.com, g-technology.com...
LaCie? Consumer level...bad rep.
Shane

Need to make space in my Hard drive to install Logic Studio Upgrade

ok. Here's my problem:
I have a 1st generation Mac Book Pro. That means 100Gb of storage.
I've been using it for professional audio recording since then with Logic Pro (6 or 7 I think) and I made necessary upgrades when they were available in both Mac book and Logic. So, now my Mac has 2.16 GHz processor, 2GB memory RAM and is running Mac OS X 10.6.3
When it comes to Logic, I am in Logic 8, trying to make the last upgrade of Logic Studio but looks like there's no more space available on my laptop. At this point, I moved any other data that I don't need. My Hard drive is almost full of a data that most of it supposedly needs to be replaced or skipped. I'm talking about additional content of audio coming on Jam Pack, etc... The installation program allow me to put some of the data in other hard drives (about 22.68 GB) but still is not enough.
Is there any way to solve this? May be uninstalling programs and data that later will be installed again with my upgrade? I don't want to make a mess before asking.
Probably is time to get a new computer. If this is the only option please somebody tell me! but if is not, I refuse to spend the money. My laptop is working fine...
Thank you
Fran

Well, first i would decide what you need the computer for. If you use iPhoto and iTunes, maybe moving the libraries to external HD may free up a significant amount of HD space.
Also, look for apps you don't need anymore, look for ancient data that can be zipped&archived away. That's a lot of work, but is worth the time, because you get to know what really is on your HD. I have so many small apps&tools lying around on my HD clogging space, but in fact i only used them once or twice in a lifetime, so better delete them.
BTW: Make sure you have enough space on your HD not only to install Logic studio but have some extra GB's for the OS to shuffle data around. No OS likes a full HD.
My strong suggestion would to give your Macbook to a trustworthy Mac store where they install a bigger HD and copy everything over to the new one.
Fox

Optimal Hard Drive Configuration for Premiere Pro CS5 and Pro Tools

I am in the process of upgrading a workstation that is used primarily for multi-track audio recording in Pro Tools to use the following Adobe CS5 products for production of promotional videos in HDV (and AVCHD for the web) as well as printed marketing materials for bands and musicians: Premiere Pro, Encore, Photoshop, Illustrator and Soundbooth.
Since Premiere Pro is probably the most demanding application of the group, I have been studying the suggested hardware configurations on this forum with great interest, particularly HARM's suggestions (including his Generic Guideline for Disk Setup) to determine which hard drives to purchase and the optimal manner in which to configure them.
I am upgrading an HP Z800 with dual quad core 2.44 GhZ processors with hyperthreading (16 virtual cores), 12 GB of memory and an overclocked GeForce GTX 470. Without setting up a RAID configuration (which I cannot afford at the moment), I would like to use the 4 available HDD bays in the Z800 in the optimal manner for Premier Pro, using currently available drives. I am currently considering purchasing a 300GB VelociRaptor to use as my C drive because of the extended load times and demands placed on the drive by ProTools and the associated Waves plug-ins.
I would appreciate suggestions to improve my following plan: C (300GB WD VelociRaptor) for OS and Programs; D (1 TB WD Black Caviar) for Media and Projects; E (1 250 GB WD Black Caviar) for Pagefile (approx. 18 GB) and Media Cache; and E (2 TB WD Black Caviar) for Previews, Exports and Pro Tools audio files.
I have great respect for the knowledge of the members of this forum and eagerly await your suggestions.
/Bill

I very much appreciate the responses to my email because I know that all of your time is valuable and that you have chosen to use some of that valuable time to help an unknown individual. This forum is remarkable because of the wealth of knowledge available and the willingness of so many to assist others.
I now wish to narrow my questions to save you time and so that I can get specific advice. I may not have not been clear that I have already upgraded to the HP Z800 with dual quad core processors and overclocked GTX 470, primarily for the improved performance it will provide in ProTools. My question now is how to optimize its performance for Premiere Pro CS5. Based upon my research, I am considering the following two upgrades, but I am open to other suggestions if they would provide better results at a similar cost
1. I am considering purchasing a 600GB WD VelociRaptor ( WD6000HLXH) for my C drive on which I would place OS (Windows 7, 64 Bit) and programs in an effort to reduce loading times of large programs. I have two questions: (1) Are members of the forum seeing a significant improvment in program loading times with the VelociRaptor because I am still not convinced that the price performance of SSD's justifies their use; and (2) There are so many models of VelociRaptors now that I want to be certain that I am purchasing the best version for my needs. In addition to the usual 10000 RPM speed, this model has 32MB Cache and a 3.5" form factor as well as a SATA 6.0GB/s interface (which I doubt my motherboard can take advantage of but it might extend the useful life of the drive with future configurations).
2. I currently have available for installation in the Z800 the following drives: (1) WD 2TB Black Caviar; (1) WD 1TB Black Caviar; (2) Hitachi 1TB. I believe that the Z800 can accept up to 5 SATA hard drives which I will have if I purchase the Velociraptor. Although I am reasonably knowledeable when it comes to hardware, I have never set up a RAID configuration. Therefore, it would be helpful if someone could recommend one of the various RAID configurations and brieflyexplain why it would seem to be best for my needs. I can then focus my research on understanding that one configuration.
I was planning to follow Scott's suggestion for my current 3 drives: OS and programs on C (WD 600 GBVelociRaptor), media and projects on D (WD 1TB Black Caviar), export files and Pro Tools files (all live musician tracks, no samples) on E (WD 2TB Black Caviar). However, I have been reading about the benefits of a RAID configuration so I am interested in further suggestions now that I have clarified my questions.
Thank you all for your help.
Bill

Best hard drive setup for Logic Pro?..

Hi all,
I'm about to get a Mac Pro, and I was wondering a bit about the best hard drive set up for running Logic Pro.
1. Should I go with Western Digital Caviar SE ? Noise is a primary issue, I'd like them to be as silent as possible. Could anybody tell me their experiences with this disc?.. I also hear that Samsungs Spinpoint are almost silent. Any truth to this? (I want my discs in sizes of 500Gb.)
2. Is this a good setup:
D1: Mac OS, Logic Pro
D2: Audio for Logic Pro
D3: Sample libraries, including direct from disc streaming.
3. I seem to remember from another post that someone wrote that raiding discs could actually decrease performance when working with audio. Is this the case?
Thanks,
Curvebender.
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curvebender wrote:
2. Is this a good setup:
D1: Mac OS, Logic Pro
D2: Audio for Logic Pro
D3: Sample libraries, including direct from disc streaming.
Yes, excellent way to go. One suggestion: on your sample or audio drive, or an external FW, install a basic system + Logic app only. This enables you to have another system to boot from in case of trouble, or you can use it as a test bed for future updates etc. without affecting your primary system. You'd only boot into this drive in case of problems or for testing. I currently have Leopard running on one drive to test it out as I don't want to move to 10.5.x yet.

Hard drive options for Logic Express with a Mac Mini

I'm considering getting a Mac Mini to use for recording video from a medical endoscopic camera. The reasons for choosing a Mac Mini are 1) low cost 2) small size and 3) no fans - blowing dust around an operating theatre can be a risk (therefore even if cost wasn't an issue, the fans would preclude other mac models).
I've been looking at the spec of a Mac Mini - they have 5400 rpm hard drives and only 1 firewire 800 port. I'm using a Canopus ADVC 55 to convert analogue video to DV which connects using Firewire.
Will the built in hard drive be ok, or should I consider replacing it with a 7200 rpm drive, or get an external Firewire drive. PResumably, with only 1 firewire port on the Mac Mini I would need to find either a hard drive with 2 firewire ports to chain devices (which I've heard can be a problem) or perhaps get a firewire hub (similar problem?).
Currently I'm using a MacBook Pro with an internal 7200 rpm drive and this works fine (except when it gets low on hard drive space and I get dropped frames, leading to complete loss of the recording...).

Thanks - I just did a quick search and there are some Firewire 800/400 'bilingual' hubs around at reasonable prices.
I'm tempted to try the Mac Mini server, and perhaps have the 2 drives in a Raid 0 configuration. I could then have it backing up to a Time Capsule overnight (to mitigate the risk of using Raid 0).
Recording to an external drive might be useful though - as it would be a quick way of moving the data to a Mac Pro for compression for archiving. I find moving 10-20GB files over 802.11n to be very time consuming.
I'll certainly bear the dust in mind in terms of the risk to the Mac Mini (I've seen PC's having failed power supplies because the air inlets have been clogged with dust). My main concern however would be the risk of infection due to the fans causing air movement. There is an enclosed space it could be located, not great for cooling though.

Distant hard drive configuration for CrashPlan

Hi,
Lets assume that me and my son (distant) have each an Intel iMac 2.6Ghz. If we want to use CrashPlan (online backup software) with a distant hard drive, what would be the fastest setup for the distant hard drive?
1. a USB drive connected to an Airport Extreme base station
2. a FireWire 800 hard drive directly connected to my computer
I first wondered if both configuration will work. If they both do, probably the FW800 would be the fastest but is there any other technical limitations that I should consider ? And finally is there other alternatives to our setup ?
Thanks in advance.
Robert Lespérance

Ignoring if what you want to do is possible, that's a query for the CrashPlan people, FW 400 is 40-50% faster than USB 2 and FW 800 is twice as fast as FW 400. However, that only applies from computer directly to HD, not computer to HD via Internet where transferring speeds are dictated by what your ISP provides.

Hard drive configuration for Essbase

I'm new to the administration of Essbase and would appreciate any assistance.We are running Essbase 5.0.2 SP14 on a Windows 2000 O/S. We only have around 15 gig free on drive space (each month about 5 MB of new data is added) and are planning on expanding to 3/72 GB hard drives. Our customers want to be able to have a copy of data for each year and save them as different applications (i.e., data2000, data2001, etc) and save them till the end of time. I was wondering if the h/d should be partitioned even though they could potentially want to look at the data at anytime. If the drive is partitioned, would that require having to export the data, reload and recalc it?Any information anyone could provide will be greatly appreciated.

Hi,If your Windows box have two drive letter like C:\ for OS, D:\ for Essbase, then you will add a new RAID storage as E:\, you don't have to export/import.1. From Application Manager, select Database->Setting->Storage TAB.2. At Location option, you can setup Disk Volume setting to store different drive letter.For example,Disk Volume: EPartition Size: unlimitedFile Type: index+data File size: 2097152KThis means, all of Cube data is located on E:\, no size limitation, the located object are index(ess*.ind) and data (ess*.pag) and 2Gbyte is maximum size of an each file.Also there is information on Database Administrator Guide, or on-line help on Application Manager.

What is the best hard drive configuration for disk/media cache?

I just installed a 480 GB PCI SSD for my boot drive. I also have a 240 GB SSD and a 1TB 7200 rpm hd. Can anyone suggest on which drives to place my source files, aep files, media and disk cache and output for the best read/write speed? Thanks for any advice. Same question for Premiere Pro too, if you know!
I'm using a Mac Pro dual proc, 12 core, 40 GB.

Hi YoshBear,
Welcome to Adobe forums,
We recommend you to go through following link as it provides more information about setting up hardware for Premiere pro and After effects :
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/878520
http://helpx.adobe.com/after-effects/using/improve-performance.html
http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/creativesuite/produ ction/cs6/pdfs/adobe-hardware-performance-whitepaper.pdf
Regards
Abhishek

Best Dual Hard Drive Configuration?

Hello,
           I hope this is the correct forum for this.
     I am about to install a second internal hard drive in the desktop computer I use for my studio work, and am having problems coming up with the most efficient setup.
      First of all, here is what I currently have and use:
         Hardware:
            Acer predator gaming pc
            i3 processor-64 bit ready
            1TB internal hard drive (from factory)
            quick change internal hard drive bay ( currently empty but have new 2 TB internal hard drive ready to install)
            8 gb Ram
            M-Audio Mini 3rd generation
            M-Audio Fast Track Ultra Pro
        Software:
            Adobe Audition CS6.0
            ProTools LE8
           Windows Seven 32 bit   (have Windows seven 64 bit ready to install also)
       This system is mainly used for creating radio programs, not live but more in podcast format, I also use it for music and songs for the programs but I have been approached about doing some video work, mainly dubbing. I rely almost totally on audition cs6.0 and at times wonder why I even have protools installed...other than I do like a few of the effects
        The reason for wanting to make changes:
          I made a mistake in installing 32 bit windows seven in the first place, because I did not take "64 bit ready" literally and assumed that some type of upgrading was needed.
       When I was approached about the video work I began to upgrade the system by installing more Ram (originally only had 2gb DDR3) but after installing the Ram found that 32 bit windows seven will only use 3 GB Ram, but that 64 bit windows seven will utilize more Ram. I also am contemplating purchasing Adobe Premier 6.0 which I believe needs 64 bit windows.
    Even though I am currently only using one third of the original 1 TB hard drive, I would also like to use the second hard drive for backup and or storage. I like having multiple backup options and currently use several external hard drives, one for a clone of my entire system, another for incremental backups and still one more for weekly "drag and drop" backups.
My thoughts were:
       1) To install windows seven 64 bit on a partition in the second hard drive and use another partition on that hard drive for backups and/or storage
      2) To install windows seven 64 bit on the first hard drive as a second operating system (leaving windows 32 bit also) and use the second hard drive as a backup and/or storage drive
      3) To install windows 64 bit as the only operating system on the first hard drive and use the second drive as backup/storage
        I am not really an expert at all of this and have made some monumental msitakes in the past that have cost me weeks of down time, so am really trying to avoid making mistakes or having regrets about how I set the system up.
                                                                                                       Thanks in Advance!

Hi Bob,
       Thanks for the quick reply, and no, I don't really have a particular reason to keep the 32 bit o/s, other than a fear of messing up when doing a clean install of the 64 bit. I think that's why I wanted someone elses opinion...I had a sneaking suspicion that I was going about it the wrong way.
      I guess the next step is just to do fresh backups and figure out how to migrate everything.
                                                                                                                     Lee

Hard drive configuration is not set to factory default. Refurbished Acer Iconia W3-810

This tablet was purchased refurbished. As soon as I got it, I went to create my backup and message is "Hard drive configuration is not set to the factory default. Backup aborted. I had already sent it in once to the seller for repair services and it was sent back not repaired. They now say I can send it in again but seems a waste of time. I called Acer and they said I would need to purchase the recovery disk which should have already been provided to me. It does have a valid SNID number. I checked.   If there is anyone else who came up against this problem, I would love to know what you did to resolve it. Second problem. Large font had been created where is overscans the entire page so reading the Control Panel is impossible. The warranty dept created a new user account with new settings as they were unable to fix the font problem so they ignored it. This is another reason I wanted to do a factory reset. Hoping Acer will be kind enough to just send me the disk.   I've learned alot about refurbished products. Never again.

Hard drive configuration is not set to factory default (I had this problem but mine was caused by some third party partitioning software easeus. I am not pretty entirely sure what was your cause for the error, but I believe this workaround can be useful, even to some of the users)  I learnt a tough lesson and I am now careful on what third party soft wares one must use especially for partitioning related events using windows 8 GPT structure. This article specifically relates to windows 8 (which I was using) although similar steps may work as well in windows 7 Points note:Most newer windows devices now use the GPT partitioning system compared to the traditional MBR system.It can be very difficult to reinstall windows on a partition with GPT format.One must be careful on what 3rd party portioning tools they use. It is not recommend to use some 3rd party tools to resize partitions as these may mess the hard drive configuration in such a way that it will be very difficult to restore to factory settings (especially for devices pre-loaded with OEM-Windows 8)It is recommended to use the in-built Disk management utility to shrink/resize partitions.First and foremost, it is recommended to use system file scanner to check any files that may be corrupted (and most of these are normally fixed by sfc)Press Windows key + X, select ‘Command prompt (Admin)’. Enter the following command “sfc /scannow” (without quotes) and the system will start scanning the system. Wait until it finishes.Now we will proceed to the main fix; here are the set of steps I performed,Run CMD (Admin)Type diskpartType list diskDisk 0 Online 465 GB 19 GB * (an example of how the disk will present)
Disk 1 Online 22 GB 0 B * Select diskDISKPART> select disk 0 list partitionDISKPART> list partition (Note you see recovery partitions flagged as OEM) So what we do is to set the id according to the GUID (Global Unique Identifier) system.Selected every partition with a OEM typeI changed their ID's to DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC (see below)Partition 1 OEM 1000 MB 1024 KB
Partition 2 System 260 MB 1001 MB
Partition 3 Reserved 128 MB 1261 MB
Partition 4 Primary 224 GB 1389 MB
Partition 5 OEM 350 MB 226 GB
Partition 6 Unknown 3913 MB 226 GB
Partition 7 Primary 200 GB 230 GB
Partition 8 Unknown 7813 MB 430 GB
Partition 9 OEM 7948 MB 458 GBDISKPART> select part 1Partition 1 is now the selected partition.DISKPART> set id = "de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"DiskPart successfully set the partition ID.DISKPART> select part 5Partition 5 is now the selected partition.DISKPART> set id = "de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"DiskPart successfully set the partition ID.DISKPART> select part 9Partition 9 is now the selected partition.DISKPART> set id = "de94bba4-06d1-4d40-a16a-bfd50179d6ac"DiskPart successfully set the partition ID.  Here is a screenshot (please note this is not a screenshot I made, I downloaded it online and I give thanks to the uploader) is just for education purposes. The issue should be solved. Now you can try system refresh/reinstall to factory settings (or create a recovery media)*In my case and others I researched on internet, it turns EASEUS partition master was the culprit, please don’t use that software if you don’t know what you are doing. (With all respect to EASEUS) I think this tool is still not configured well to work with the GPT partition format.

Question: Hard Drive Setup for Photoshop

Hi There,
I am looking to purchase a new Dell system for use with Adobe Creative suites, and will mostly be using Photoshop. The system will be running CS4 with Vista 64bit, and we will use 8GB or RAM (or more if anyone suggest). My main question is in regards to hard drive configuration. My partition setup will be as follows:
C: windows OS, windows page file, adobe program files
D: photoshop scratch disk
E: data files
In terms of performance, how would you suggest I purchase/configure drives between the options below:
1) Buy 3 sas 15k drives and make a single RAID 0 disk. Partition the single disk with the 3 partitions listed above
2) Buy 3 sas 15 k drives, and put one partition on each drive (non-RAID 0)
Let me know if you have any recommendations on this setup or any other recommendations would be much appreciated. Thanks!

Thanks Freeagent!

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