My Plan for my PT7 Upgrade - Feedback Welcome

[Greg B]

Read 9,432 DUC posts and make decision
Review and confirm location of all PC paperwork, licenses and install CDs
Confirmed logins to Waves and Digi accounts
Dream up the following in my head...

Purchase the PT7 license (done)
Printout license/registration/proof of insurance (done)
Download:
PT7 program, ProToolsLE7_21789.zip, 97mb
Pace files, tpkd.zip, 4mb
updates for BF plugs, pt7bfplugs.zip, 58mb
update for Digi plugs, pt7digiplugs.zip, 59mb
Waves PT7 updates (Waves installer, I think), WavesPT7Update1.exe, 2.3mb
PT7 help files, pt7docs.zip, 21mb
Waves IR1 reverb, WavesIRx_V5.1.exe, 83mb
Read, Upgrading_to_7.pdf, 348kb

(above all done, below is all theory)

Backup all PT sessions to external disc
Perform DaveC test on 6.4cs9
Install SP2 (actually, SP2 with RME fix is currently installed)

Disable anti-virus
Install new PACE
Install PT7 (uninstall drivers option, let the install prompt for uninstall of 6.4)
Reboot?
Run Waves update
Run Digi plugs update
Run BF plugs update
Run help files or place in proper location?
Install IR1 reverb
Reboot into BIOS
Enable hyperthreading

Launch PT7
Go through Upgrading_to_7.pdf

New session, DaveC test.
Confirm MIDI devices present
Try old sessions
Try new session with new MIDI tracks
Load d8b HUI controller profile - confirm that works
Confirm IXL metering plugins
Confirm Waves plugs
Confirm BF plugs

Possible Cons:
New window with giant tracks not appealing
Selected MIDI notes becoming white (disappearing)(found the work-around!)
Unable to open previous sessions
Multiple monitor window placement is not applicable
Denormalization issues with certain plugs?
Any concerns with ASIO, or is that taken care of?
Leave DEP settings "as is"?

I thank any and all posters,
Greg

[Shan]

Get Norton Ghost and create a restore image of your current working system of your C drive.

Shane

[bigbubbaj]

Ghost bites.
Get acronis trueimage! Newegg.com has great deals on it btw!

[Matt Whritenour]

is making the image of ur c: drive just to save you hours of time in having to reinstall everything again after you format?, because if so i'm going to buy a program,

now which one is really better, ghost or trueimage?

[Greg B]

I'll have time to get to this Sunday. I'll take some notes and post the actual historical procedure if it looks like it might help those who are also faint of heart.

[albee1952]

Remove your working ProTools 6.x drive and save it. Install a new 80-120GB drive($50 after rebates) and do a fresh load of everything. This way if it has problems, just put your old drive in to get work done. Or use Acronis or some other HD cloner and create a copy of your old drive to a new drive, then update the new drive. It has been a Godsend having a working drive to go back to. I have done this on all my upgrades and it has paid off twice on paying sessions. Best $50 I ever spent.

[Greg B]

I would get a new drive in a second (there's a "but" coming, can you feel it?) except that I've gone down the heretical path of using one PC for everything, email, Office and Internet. If I suffer for it, I'm unaware. So that's a lot of SW installation to get me back to jump.

The other aspect of that is that my Waves stuff is registered to a hard drive. I think I read of someone trying to switch drives and Waves has gone to iLok only, and won't re-register to a new hard drive.

I'm a pretty big chicken, and I loathe the thought of putting $1k worth of SW into the same category as my glasses and car keys. I can find them most of the time. Do people chain these to their computers?

Anyway, the Ghost/Acronis stuff sounds like a good idea. Where does it put the image it will use to restore from?

Thanks,
Greg