Both hardrives get windows7?

[Jimibrix]

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[Shan]

Originally Posted by Jimibrix

I am ordering my tower, they are setting it up. Do both hard drives get windows 7?

No, just the main system drive will have W7 installed. The other drive will be for your audio and PT sessions etc. Once you get a session up and running, it will make better sense.

Shane

[Benoni]

no. one drive has your OS on it. You install all your programs to that drive. the other drive you will use to record to.

[Benoni]

Originally Posted by Jimibrix

I'm being told windows7 is on both hard drives. Can I uninstall it off the second hard drive if they screw it up?

who is building this system? yes you can uninstall it off one of the drives, but if this person/company is building a system, i highly doubt they would be installing windows 7 to both drives.

[Shan]

Originally Posted by Jimibrix

Ok. It's all under control now, mainly because you guys and this incredible forum. You have been more help than I can put into words... I'll be back when I'm hooking all of this up. I have everything now -on it's way. And one last purchase is my firewire card - and that must be a Texas Instruments chipset 400 correct? Any particular brand name you prefer for Pro Tools Digidesign 003 Factory with Windows 7?

SIIG Firewire cards are what I use myself. Others will chime in with what works on their end. Keep us posted on your build.

Shane

[rqstudio]

Just to double check, don't install PT on your Audio Drive, just record your sessions to it...

[albee1952]

And when you get your system up, right-click on MyComputer, select Manage, then Disk Management and look at the left most box for each drive. Your audio drive should show as NTFS and BASIC. If you see Dynamic, that drive will need to be reformatted as Pro Tools does not record to Dynamic drives. You might also open MyComputer and right0click on your recording drive and select properties and make sure that the drive is NOT checked off to use compression. Somewhere on the DUC, someone had a great list of system tweaks, so if you can find it, I would print it out for future reference