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Old 11-09-2014, 09:07 AM
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I need help desperately. In a heated argument, I smashed my boyfriend's computer, not knowing how expensive all of his recording devices were. The computer was a Toshiba with Windows 7 Pro Tools 8. The computer was totally damage but luckily we were able to say the external hard drive. Here is the problem, he went and purchased another Toshiba with Windows 8 and he's trying to install Pro Tools 8. Pro Tools 8 is freezing, the plugins are there. Why is Pro Tools 8 freezing? Please help!!
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Old 11-09-2014, 10:23 AM
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Pro Tools v8 is not supported on Windows OS 8.0 and up
http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/e...437?popup=true

best option is to get the Pro Tools 11/10 combo upgrade and an iLok v2
second option is to get a copy of Windows 7 and wipe and rebuild the laptop's OS system
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Old 11-09-2014, 03:23 PM
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I need help desperately. In a heated argument, I smashed my boyfriend's computer, not knowing how expensive all of his recording devices were. The computer was a Toshiba with Windows 7 Pro Tools 8. The computer was totally damage but luckily we were able to say the external hard drive. Here is the problem, he went and purchased another Toshiba with Windows 8 and he's trying to install Pro Tools 8. Pro Tools 8 is freezing, the plugins are there. Why is Pro Tools 8 freezing? Please help!!
As mentioned above, Protools 8 only worked up to Windows 7. Either upgrade Protools to the current version Protools 11 or see if it is possible to install Windows 7 on the computer (Maybe swap out the internal hard drive).

It's none of my business but, perhaps a bit of anger management counseling is in order. Smashing computers is not a good behavior to have in any case. I'm just saying...
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I smashed my boyfriend's computer
Lol...classic!
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Lol...classic!
That happens in real life? Thought that only happened in American movies

In any case I hope you get that up and running as fast as possible.

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