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Low Level Driver
I recently had to return my computer to factory settings in order to dodge some virus issues. I had installed PT LE on my external drive before wiping my computer clean. Now I'm experiencing a notification saying that my "user privileges are insufficient to start a low level driver." I'm not entirely sure what this means, or where I should begin to fix it. All suggestions welcome.
2 GHz processor Vista MBox2 Mini PT 8.1.4 3G RAM SeaGate 1T |
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Re: Low Level Driver
PT needs to be installed to the system drive.
Period.
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Re: Low Level Driver
I installed/ran the program from my external drive pre-computer restoration.
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Re: Low Level Driver
Which explains why you are now having problems.
I never understand why people do this; it doesn't make any sense. The Windows registry is stored with the OS. On the system drive. Wipe/reload, or change the system drive and the needed registry entries, as well as any additional system drivers, for any software that is installed to an external drive are gone. A re-install will be required, thus making the installation to an external pointless. And it doesn't really matter if you had it working or not; the requirement from Digidesign/Avid is that Pro Tools, and all of it's peripheral software (plugins, rewire, hardware drivers, etc etc) should be installed to the system drive.
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Re: Low Level Driver
Helpful response: appreciated.
Mild forcefulness and condescension: not so much appreciated. Thanks. |
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Re: Low Level Driver
Accepting advice that you yourself asked for: appreciated.
Ignoring the basic requirements for running Pro Tools: not so much appreciated.
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Re: Low Level Driver
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Another thing to consider would be to get Acronis True Image Home 2011 and make an image and or clone of your working system, that way if you ever have a virus like this again you can recover in under 10 minutes like it never happened. Good luck. If you run into any other problems come back and post, or you can email me directly, i have had a gaggle of experience running PT on Vista successfully. good luck.
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Re: Low Level Driver
Yes yes yes! Don't even think about this, just go buy Acronis True Image(do it today). Do this as soon as your new load is all tweaked and working(so you never have to worry about this stuff again). Restoring from an image is fast and easy, and it feels great to reboot and find your system exactly where it needs to be, whether you suffered an attack, a bad update install or a crash. Acronis also does straight disk cloning. I keep cloned system drives for my Pro Tools machine and my laptop, and drive images of those and every other computer I own(and some that I have built for friends so I can restore those when my friends screw them up....and they WILL)
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Re: Low Level Driver
Wonderfully helpful advice guys, thanks. How much might this program cost me? I'm a working college student and musician. Buying anything usually means saving first.
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Re: Low Level Driver
I've seen the basic package for $29.99. You can get the add-on goodies later. If you upgrade to Windows 7, they have a basic drive imager built in. It does indeed work, but you must save the image to a completely separate drive(not a partition) and when you restore, you do the entire drive. Acronis allows you to update/clone/image a partition only. Check newegg.com, tigerdirect.com or even amazon.com
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