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MemberBenny Mackney, post: 1527 wrote: Is… is that a router under there? 0.o
Almost. It’s a network switch. The shelf on my laptop stand was just a handy place to put it where I could see the LEDs.
MemberLiambo, post: 1644 wrote: I personally think that the time spent beatgridding and sync-ing the tunes is a lot of wasted time. Because any person that can beatmatch and that are good at it can tell you they will be able to beatmatch in about 10-15 seconds maximum.
You need to beatgrid your tracks if you want to use tempo-synched effects though, don’t you?
MemberI keep and show fancy rats.
MemberI’m a tech support geek.
MemberI’m not laughing, honest! 😀
MemberEmma Partnow, post: 1469 wrote: That is me just ‘Sounding Off’ though because I can remember my Gran having an Amstrad 128K PC !
Ooooh! Hark at Miss Posh with her lah-di-dah 128K Amstrad. Some of us had to make do with a 64K one! :p
MemberGood luck. Just remember, if you have any problems, disconnect the drive and ask for advice before trying anything else as that way you have more of a chance of saving your data.
MemberEmma Partnow, post: 1465 wrote: Hello Lew :);
Thank You for your Help;
What happened last night was ‘Suddenly’ out of Nowhere; my CPU went up to 100%; and my External Drive had this Orange loading Bar at the top of the window that just went on Forever;
When I pressed the ‘Start’ button to see what was going on I couldn’t even Access my ‘C’ Drive or even the ‘Control Panel’; and there was a Lot of Noise coming from the External Drive; I Restarted my laptop and it all went Quiet again; but as soon as I Selected my External Drive (I was able to Access ‘My Computer’ after the Restart); my CPU shot up to 100% again; and all I had Access to was my email and Internet (which was Fortunate); but of course it is my Music I am concerned about Mostly;
The Drive still has one more Years Warranty; but of course they will just tell me to Reformat before I send it back;Hmmm… That does sound to me like the beginning of a disk failure. These things can tend to be intermittent at the start, which could explain why it suddenly started working again. BTW, I work in technical support so I can understand why they’d initially ask you to reformat the disk as it would help to rule out a simple corruption problem. Obviously if you get the problem again after reformatting then it helps them to justify a hardware fix or replacement.
I Wish I had the Opportunity to Copy the Music to another External Drive; but I don’t have Access to one; my Music is only in fact 60GB or something and I have that Free on my ‘C’ Drive; and so I could do that at least – If the Drive allows me to Access it – as last night all I was trying to do was Copy a 100MB on my External Drive to a Different Folder on my External Drive :(;
If you have enough space on your C drive then you should copy your music there. Don’t try to copy the whole lot in one go, though; do it a folder at a time. This way, if the copy fails part way through it’s easier to tell how far you’d got so that you know what you still need to copy. If you only get some of the music copied across and the drive starts playing up again, disconnect the drive and leave it turned off for a couple of hours and then try again. Sometimes allowing the drive to cool down can get it working again for a while, long enough to rescue your files. When my external drive failed it took me about 10 attempts to get my data back before the drive died completely, but I was able to get most of my data back.
MemberEmma Partnow, post: 1441 wrote: My Music Libray is in Danger of becoming NIL at the moment; as last night and this morning I could not even Access my External Drive :(; I am playing Tracks off of it at the moment; but the Thought of actually Moving a File from one place to another on the External Drive (which is what I was trying to do last night) just Fills Me With Fear – because all the Company who makes the External Drive tell you to do is Reformat it – and so I Lose 180GB of information 🙁
When you say that you couldn’t access the drive could you be more specific? Was it showing up in Windows Explorer and refusing to work or was it not showing up at all? Could you hear the disk spinning? The problem could be as simple as a re-format (after copying your data to another drive) or it could be that the disk is on its way out, in which case you’d need to copy your data to another drive ASAP. If it’s the first problem then it’s still possible that your data can be saved without re-formatting.
I had a similar problem with an external drive a while back where the disk was dying and was able to save most of the data on it, but it was a bit of a faff.
Emma Partnow, post: 1451 wrote: Thank You Christopher :);
I will Definitely try the Different USB Port;
And this afternoon I tried the External Drive on my Foster Mother’s laptop and it worked Fine; so it is ‘Possible’ that this ‘Helped’;
I have doen a Scan on the Drive with Norton and StopZilla and nothing untoward was found;
Unfortunately I can’t afford Food right now; so a Replacement External is out of my Range 🙁Going by this information it certainly sounds more like a problem with the USB port than the drive.
MemberThe S4 certainly looks like a nice piece of kit, but rather excessive for my needs.
MemberNothing fancy. Late-2007 MacBook, Maxtor external HD, Behringer BCD3000 and Sennheiser HD 215 headphones.
MemberJona Menasso, post: 1401 wrote: My first and current controler is the Behringer BCD 3000…
Many say it is not the best one, and it is getting old now… But for that money(215 euros), brand new in a shop and it as a soundcard built in… plus Traktor Pro LE included…. (it works also on Traktor Pro Full, and no need for mapping)
Im pretty happy with it…
Got to agree there. For the money it’s a great piece of kit, especially as there wasn’t a huge amount of choice when it came out, unlike today. Mine’s still running nicely, although I’m hoping to replace it once I start working again. I’m currently thinking about getting a VCI-100MKII or saving the extra to get a VCI-300.
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