Suggestions for steps before upgrade anyone?

[superpenguin79]

I am about to throw in a 150gb secondary audio drive and a new 512mb ram chip into my system in the next week or so here. Any preventative maintenance I should do with PT besides backing up all my data on the existing drive to make things a smooth transaction before hand folks? Thanks in advance

[superpenguin79]

well, I take it a good old fashioned backup is all I need to worry about then... off to the 'puter store it is then.. peace

[JMS40]

Install them one at a time. Always a good idea when making multiple changes.

I'd start with ram. Chances are, unless you get unlucky and get a mismatch or bad stick right off, you'll boot right to your desktop, no problem.

Shutdown and add the harddrive.
Advice here would be specific to the type drive (IDE - SATA) and placement in your system.

With IDE's, a port of it's own would be ideal.
If you must chain it, don't slave it to a slower drive or CD/DVDrom.

Use XP to format the drive NTFS.

Yes, Backup.
I'm another long time Ghost user who recently switched to True Image. It's a bargin on Newegg.
Get in the habit of imaging your system drive often.
It's quick, painless, and as Rail says, drive space is cheap.

Of course, you already backup your audio data...