hard drive has failed

**BentoSan** · 10-04-2008, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by nemo

Question: Does booting from the Stick not slow down your operating system?

It will slow down the loading that the OS has to do, once everything is loaded into the system memory though its not that big an issue. We are also talking about if a hard drive manages to die mid set, which is very very highly unlikely - so a thumb drive being slow is going to be the least of your worries if this happened.

Carrying around an Esata hard drive in case if a hard drive fails mid set is a little crazy, they are much more expensive and waaaay bigger. Your chances of actually having to ever use a backup drive is soooooooooooo slim.

**Julio** · 10-05-2008, 02:59 PM

Bento:

Now that you mentioned it... have you noticed any latency increase in your Dell laptop by using VCI-100, Sound Card (In my case AudioDJ), and a USB drive?

I noticed a big increase in performance and lower latency when I switched to my eSata connector. Although, this was previous to formatting down my laptop and use it exclusively for Traktor and tweaked Vista.

**BentoSan** · 10-05-2008, 07:40 PM

Originally Posted by Julio

Bento:

Now that you mentioned it... have you noticed any latency increase in your Dell laptop by using VCI-100, Sound Card (In my case AudioDJ), and a USB drive?

Ive never had a problem with an external hard drive adding latency.

**djxsquizet** · 10-05-2008, 09:25 PM

ok well got my laptop back and its still fucking up. Like it just won't boot up past the windows loading screen.

**BentoSan** · 10-05-2008, 09:33 PM

Originally Posted by djxsquizet

ok well got my laptop back and its still fucking up. Like it just won't boot up past the windows loading screen.

If you need to still do backing up take the hard drive out of the laptop and put it in an external hard drive enclosure, slap her in a mates computer and back up what you need.
Then put the hard drive back into the computer, go into your bios and set the cd rom drive as the first boot device, put in your OS cd, reboot, follow the prompt, format your hard drive and reinstall your OS.

If your getting to the OS loading screen your hard drive has not failed.

**djxsquizet** · 10-05-2008, 10:36 PM

aight cool thats what i might do. really i just need to get all my music off and stuff i can get ableton again.

**BentoSan** · 10-05-2008, 10:40 PM

Originally Posted by djxsquizet

aight cool thats what i might do. really i just need to get all my music off and stuff i can get ableton again.

Be weary of what you back up, make sure to run everything though a virus checker just to be sure your not infecting your new install with something nasty.