Point me in the right direction????

[EtherStreams]

Hi. I'm running a dual boot winxp pro. The first instance is for browsing,
etc... The second is my audio studio. I am wondering if it is at all possible
to hide (or password protect) the partitions of the drive that the audio
studio is on, when I am logged onto the instance of windows that is for
browsing,etc...???????

 

[Just D.]

Well, if you have a complete backup to restore both systems in case your
games fail, I'd try the following...

Administrative Tools => Computer Management => Disk Management => Select
logical disk, Right Click, Change Drive Letter or Path, Remove.

Just D.

 

[EtherStreams]

Hmmm...Not quite what I had in mind. The first instance of winxp is sort of
my "beat up" system. As in, where I can test out new apps,vst,etc....My
second instance is strictly my multimedia studio (Graphic art, video editing,
audio recording,etc...)

However that I can do, what I am looking to do, I can not put at risk, any
of the drives attached to the system (the reason for the dual-boot was to
make sure that my studio went completely unaffected by the first
installation.)

The reason I wish to do this, is so that no users on the "beat up"
installation (or myself) can access, change, or delete anything on the drive
from that operating system. (Right now I can afford to by a secondary
computer to keep it all seperate).

 

[Just D.]

EtherStreams,

However that I can do, what I am looking to do, I can not put at risk, any
of the drives attached to the system (the reason for the dual-boot was to
make sure that my studio went completely unaffected by the first
installation.)

Well, that sounds strange to me, because I write programs, but I also do
photo shooting/editing and video recording/editing, and I got same Windows
and same account for everything and no problems for many years.

The reason I wish to do this, is so that no users on the "beat up"
installation (or myself) can access, change, or delete anything on the
drive
from that operating system. (Right now I can afford to by a secondary
computer to keep it all seperate).

Did you think about external SATA hard drive? It's fast enough and you can
hide the whole drive with no problems.

Just D.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Hmmm...Not quite what I had in mind. The first instance of winxp is sort
of
my "beat up" system. As in, where I can test out new apps,vst,etc....My
second instance is strictly my multimedia studio (Graphic art, video
editing,
audio recording,etc...)

However that I can do, what I am looking to do, I can not put at risk, any
of the drives attached to the system (the reason for the dual-boot was to
make sure that my studio went completely unaffected by the first
installation.)

If you can't put the studio files at risk, do not use the dual boot setup.
There's no way around the risk of damaging at least the boot files.

Instead, get a cheap, used, 2nd machine. It's easy to find an XP box
with valid license, around 3gHz, for a little over $100. Just swap the
monitor etc.

If you can't afford that, you can't afford the dual boot, either.

Or, get another hard disk, and physically swap them to change the OS...

HTH
-pk

 

[EtherStreams]

I was running it the same way you are, the problem is that the system always
goes "wonky" after a few months. (To the point taht roll backs and restoring
backups don't help). I am trying to build up windows so that the software
does'nt conflict with time and control what software/services runs in the
background (EX: Norton).

You see, my external audio interface is a really touchy "Bitch" (pardon my
language). Too many things make it crash in a firey ball death. I run Cubase
5, which eats alot of processor and memory.

I was hoping to avoid running an external drive for 2 reasons:
1) the delay in writting and playing the wave files to the drive. There is
already quite a delay in events as is (Delay to the card, delay from the
external instruments.)
2)What would be the extra (if any) load on processing.