Add new hard drive - Sonicstage problems?

[Raify]

I'm rapidly filling up my music drive (a virtual partitioned drive) and was wondering what the best way of adding more space is.

How could I add another drive, whilst not losing my music? Can the music drive exist over 2 drives?

Thanks in advance!

[kee-lo_]

Depends

1) Buy a new physical drive
2) Change the partition size with PartitionMagic (I don't recomend it)
3) Use another part of another partition.

[DJRyu]

yes the same mp3's can exist over different partitions.

Best thig to do is add new hard drive & do what Kee-Lo said

Choose wisly on ur HD size, make sure u choose right one as u dont want to fill it again soon,
250gig are cheap enuff now to think about having one, & if u do fill that, buy another 250gig

I have got 240gig over 5 partitions

[Raify]

Does that mean I can add another physical drive, and tell sonicstage to store the music there (from that point onwards)?

Will I not end up with music over 2 drives?

I tried transferring music from my old pc to my new vaio, and the stupid sonicstage software wouldn't allow it, so I don't think I can transfer my current music to a new physical drive.

thanks for the replies.

[DJRyu]

well i dont know about moving sonic stage saved music but im sure u will be able to change storage destination.

[kee-lo_]

Use iTunes it's a lot simpler with MP3.

As Ryu said, get a big drive :smileygrin:

[reaper]

ryu the reason that you are proberly losing performance and needing to restore all the time has to be because of 5 partitions thats nuts mate it lowers performance intensly

thats why it is best to strip your drives (if you have two the same)
it improves on system performance coz there is only one partition

next time you restore your pc why dont you just have two partitions equal amount of mem on each

or just have one big partition as you seem to be restoring every two mounths or so you can do a test on all three and see which one makes your pc run better

regards ben

[kee-lo_]

People like to organise their PCs
Keep music on one partition
Photos on another
Movie files on another.... etc

[DJRyu]

doh!

[DJRyu]

Noted M8, cheers:smileywink:

i would cause problems tho cos i could'nt sort them any better that they are now, i mean pal...... i got loadsa stuff,

Next Time i do a System Works Check ill tell u how many files i got over 240gig. ( Sure it was 75,000 on last time i looked )

Also having 240 gig availible all the time will strangle my PC anyway wont it?

Also i got a problem with Mp3's on my 200gig, i got thru my collection over time & gradualy i seem to be having corrupt mp3's