ViolentGreen

So apple released their 30 GB ipod, ok I can conceive that someone possibly has 30 GB of music. Now, creative is releasing a 60GB. http://www.americas.creative.com/corporate/pressroom/releases/welcome.asp?ID=334&nav=2003 Seriuosly, who has 16,000 mp3s. I have probably less then 4,000 half of which are concert recordings. Are there actually 16000 songs that an average person can recognize? I just think this is a bit much.

I just lost a 120MB hard drive. I now have to do a fresh install and am wanting suggestions on how to partition and install XP Pro to get the best results. Is it possible to mount drives as folders? For example, can I put all my program folders in partition D: and mount it to "c:/program files"? I have heard something about this but I might have it backwards (mount a folder as a drive).

Well I finally got my hard drive. I started the partitioning and such. It appears that windows will only let you mount a drive to an empty directory. Some files in the Program Files directory cannot be moved while windows is running so that makes the mounting to Program FIles dificult. THe only wany I can think to do this is to either boot into dos and try or to make a floppy with a linux kernal on it and do it from there. It might just be worth it to just use a folder called "Programs" and just keep my third party apps seperate from the windows apps. Another major benefit to having them on seperate partitions that hasn't been mentioned comes with reinstalling windows. After a certain amount of time windows just gets slow and needs to be reinstalled. Having all your non-system files on a seperate partition makes it easier to get everything back the way you had it.

Go to www.nforcershq.com and check out the forum. There are pleanty of solutions for the audio problem. The firewire works great with my ipod. Quote: I bought my A7n8x deluxe because it was the all in one solution. Onboard Dual LAN, onboard RAID (in the form of SATA), onboard audio,onboard Firewire. Well so far after having to deal with audio problems (related to drivers from nVidia), onboard firewire problems (related for some reason to creative drivers or nVidia firewire). I do not know if i will buy an nForce board again. So far in order to get my Nomad Jukebox 3 working up to par i have had to put in a 3rd party firewire card. In order to get my sound problems fixed i have had to put my old soundcard back in. So the 2 main things that were the selling point of this board have no fallen by the wayside. Nothing new has been heard of from nVidia in over a month on when new nForce drivers will be out that will fix these problems. Yet they announce the nForce 3 pro, when it seems the nForce2 isnt even ready for primetime yet. We see nVidia constantly release drivers for their video cards, what is keeping them from releasing drivers that will solve these problems beta or not. I just thought i would like to share these thoughts with people thinking about getting a nForce2 chipset.

I need to use DOS to search for a file containing a certain string in it's text. Is there a way to do this?

Quote: I suppose the Zalman Flower CNPS6000 is a good example of a near silent cooling solution for the Athlon. However, its only rated up to the Athlon XP 2600+ CPU. http://www.zalman.co.kr/english/product/cnps6000Cu.htm You could also try out the Coolermaster HHC-L61 Silent Super Heat-Pipe. Its not as quiet as the Zalman but it does offer a little more performace allowing it to be rated upto the Athlon 2800+ http://www.coolermaster.com.hk/product_d...=12 I hear the Zalmans are very quiet but don't do too well cooling.

Why the double post?

So what's a good and EXTREMELY QUIET air-based cooling system compatible with Athlons?

Quote: You can convert any partition to NTFS without losing data by opening a command line and typing: convert <driveletter> /fs:ntfs --Vermyndax Yes. This is the way to go.

Quote: You can mount a drive into a ntfs folder. It can also be a removable drive. I mount my digital camera and my card reader like that (d:\media\CF) so they don't show up in my computer. Righ click on my computer, select manage, go to Disk Management, right click on a drive, select change drive letter and path..., select add ... Haven't tried to mount a disk as program files. I reconfigured my e: drive as program files, but it still puts some files on c:. It's a good idea. Maybe I'll try it on my next setup My sugestion would be: C: 20GB NTFS (must be ntfs if you wan't to mount) D: 40GB FAT32 or NTFS mounted as program files E: 55GB FAT32 or NTFS for downloads movies ... F: 5BGB (or what's left) FAT32 or NTFS mounted as C:\temp for tem swap... I think you can leave the drive letters or you could remove the drive letters d: and f: (don't know what will happen if you have a swap file on f: and try to remove it) and change e: into d: (You can have a drive mounted more than once I think) This is just a quick sugestion, but you could try something in that direction. Post back on what you did and how it went. That is exactly what I was looking for. I'll try it on my temporary drive right and then decide whether to put it on my main one when (and if) I get it back.

Give me a Linux box and I can set up a network....windowsXP is a different matter. Is there a way to give user based access to different directories between XP Home and XP Pro? I know I cannot use domains with home so that option is out.

Quote: I recently cancelled an unzip operation in PowerArchiver and now I cant delete the directory it made; the best explination I can come up with is I dragged the file with the right mouse button and clicked "Extract to <name of zip>". As soon as it started I clicked cancel and I think it didnt quite make the directory name properly. I tried to delete the directory and the only message I get is "cannot read from the source file or disc" I have looked at the name in command prompt and there is a space on the end of the directory name, which windows doesnt allow. I cannot rename or delete or move the directory. Does anyone know how I can remove this directory without formatting the drive as its a 120gig drive with about 60gig of data on and its just not practical. Thanks -Mark I am sure you have tried this but I will ask anyway... Have you tried rebooting? I have ran into that problem many times...it is usually solved with a reboot or stopping whatever app/service is accessing the file. In my case it has been explorer

Quote: Quote: It just seems like there would be better options for both of these features. I don't see it and probably never will. I really think you're being a little narrow minded about this... I mean really, the possibilities are endless http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,50688,00.html on this sort of thing Jim you are probably right.

So do you all think this will be successful? I think when it finally gets ported to windows I will use it. You have a guarantee of quality and of download speed plus the ability to preview. I don't download all that much anymore but I think I will use it when I do. Those three features are worth the 99 cents. It will onlt have 200,000 songs at first so I am a little concerned about the selection of the more obscure stuff that I usually download. I think one of the biggest hurdles will be all the kids and peopel who do not or can not have a credit card. Just my thoughts... Its a slow day.

Quote: They need to offer a snalmail download option, whereyou can download a certain number on good faith tat you will pay. After a certain limit your downloads are suspended until payment clears, at whic point you can download again. This for people that don't have credit cards. The need to download now without a credit card is important because much of the music fans out there are young people, and they are trying to compete with "free" afterall. That is an idea. Perhaps send a bill. There would be ways of getting around that though, I am sure people would make new accounts and repeat.

Quote: If I was looking to get a large removeable drive, and there were 2 on the shelf. One of them plays mp3's and one of them doesnt. Which is a better product? Well there is a significant price difference. I have seen 80GB for $150 as opposed to the $400 for this product. Best product is different from best buy.

Quote: It's all about storage. justbecuase it can play mp3's doesnt mean you need to fill 60 gigs mp3's on it. Its also 60 gig of storage for any files. this is an excellent feature. If it could only hold mp3 files it would be rediculously large. It just seems like there would be better options for both of these features. I don't see it and probably never will.

Quote: I have no problem filling my 40GB maxtor with mp3's. The problem is that I don't have time to organize them and burn them on to CD's. About filling so much songs 24,570,108 songs 1,919,818 CDs (CDDB.com). No idea how much songs my collection has, but some of my friends go well over 60GB. Do you seriously know and like all the songs though? If so, then I guess you have shown me that there is a market for this product. If not, would it really be worth it to have skip 10-15 songs that you don't know or don't like to get to one you do?

I missed the part on compression. I don't know anything about it so I can't really comment on that. I have used it a little on my laptop for some text files but I have never really messed too much with it with it. My desktop had a 120 gb hardrive so that was less of a concern. (It is in the process of a RMA after two months though and I am seriously pissed off about that). Hard drives are often less then $1 a GB. So don't see the compression remaining a big factor in future versions of Windows. I noticed that you are using a RAID array, I assume you are using striping. Do you think you could just have a bad hard drive? I don't know if you are overclocking your system or not but I have heard of many reports of hard drive corruption as a result. Anyway, you probably knew all that. PS And for using the nomad as an external hard drive. From what I saw, it had no firewire support. I just still don't get it. I havn't heard the greatest about creative's mp3 player quality either.

Quote: Quote: * Heh, only problem is, I am finding that keeping HUGE data like that online on an NTFS compressed partition riding on an HighPoint 370 RAID controller as a single disk is touchy... I lose alot of files due to corruption strangely, & this has me wondering about something ChristianB said about these 8mb buffered disks losing data in fact. APK I remember about the time the 2Mb buffered disks came out that corruption was happening at shutdown. MS released a patch the really only delayed the shutdown by a couple seconds to allow the cache to clear before powering down. Could be something similar? Maybe try disbling the write cache on that drive for a little while to see if the corruption mysteriously disappears? Jim I have never had any trouble with corruption with ntfs.

I feel for you. My primary hard drive went belly up after 2 months last night.

Quote: Quote: Quote: Don't forget to tell him how "wonderful" driver support is for ATI "choke choke" Actually, I think it's a lot better then the nvidia driver support. You must be very, very new to the PC world as ATi has always had poor driver support in Windows, and is just now starting to fix that as well as help out Linux users. nVidia not only has *much* more solid and stable drivers, but has a much better driver team and continues to enhance performance on newer cards, while still passing on improvements to older ones and being backward compatible. And yes, I have been a long time fan of nVidia but I am currently using a Radeon 9800 Pro on this box because I wanted better DVD support. Well maybe it's just me then. I have always found it to be quite a hassle with nvidia. I have only had a Radeon for a couple of months and have not tried to update the linux drivers or anything. I have been pleased with the windows support though.

Actually two questions. 1) Nero detects my Lite-On 52x24x52 as having a max write speed of 40x. I have burned at 52x before. Anyone know why? 2) I have used Nero to find the max speed of my cdr media but I can no longer find where this option is.

and this is the guy he have trying to save us all.... *sigh*

Quote: Don't forget to tell him how "wonderful" driver support is for ATI "choke choke" Actually, I think it's a lot better then the nvidia driver support.