Has anyone had luck moving files. My hard drive is nearly
full and I want to add a second ( or a new pc) will I have
to rebuild my media library or is there a way to relocate
the whole thing a still have media player find everything.

Hello,

What I would do is buy another hard drive (Maybe 20-30
GB, depending on the size of your libary), add it as a
slave drive and move the music files onto it. I would
then delete all the files from the WMP, then make it scan
the new drive. You can get a 20 GB hard drive pretty
cheap these days, and I mean the good brands too.

Ty

>-----Original Message-----
>Has anyone had luck moving files. My hard drive is
nearly
>full and I want to add a second ( or a new pc) will I
have
>to rebuild my media library or is there a way to
relocate
>the whole thing a still have media player find
everything.
>.
>

On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:33:38 -0800, "Ty" <(E-Mail Removed)>
spewed forth these words of wisdom:

>Hello,
>
>What I would do is buy another hard drive (Maybe 20-30
>GB, depending on the size of your libary), add it as a
>slave drive and move the music files onto it. I would
>then delete all the files from the WMP, then make it scan
>the new drive. You can get a 20 GB hard drive pretty
>cheap these days, and I mean the good brands too.
>
>Ty
>

20GB? Do they even make those anymore? You can often find great deals on 80GB
drives. Ty's advice is dead-on, though.

--
"I'm not a cool person, but I play one on the Internet"
Galley

Hello,

They still make 20 and 30 GB drives. Check on
www.newegg.com and www.zipzoomfly.com. I told the
persont that because I don't know how much money he/she
is willing to spend on a new hard drive, and 20 and 30 GB
drives run under $50 bucks.

Ty

>-----Original Message-----
>On Sat, 6 Dec 2003 08:33:38 -0800, "Ty"
<(E-Mail Removed)>
>spewed forth these words of wisdom:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>What I would do is buy another hard drive (Maybe 20-30
>>GB, depending on the size of your libary), add it as a
>>slave drive and move the music files onto it. I would
>>then delete all the files from the WMP, then make it
scan
>>the new drive. You can get a 20 GB hard drive pretty
>>cheap these days, and I mean the good brands too.
>>
>>Ty
>>
>
>20GB? Do they even make those anymore? You can often
find great deals on 80GB
>drives. Ty's advice is dead-on, though.
>
>--
>"I'm not a cool person, but I play one on the Internet"
>Galley
>.
>

WMP should be able to resolve the links if the drives are NTFS. If it
doesn't work, you can just reset the library (info at the first link below).


Thanks,

Erin Dallin [MS]

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