Hard Drive Disaster

[53mph]

Quote:Quote:It's the sessions, the vst's and libraries that have me loosing sleep, lol.Can't you just re-load the libraries and vsti's from the original CDs/DVDs? I know it's time consuming...but hardly worth losing sleep over...mattoDepends on the software. I dread to think what would happen if my hard drives gave up. Stuff like Trilogy and East West have a complicated registering software that ID's your operating system, and sometimes the ID of your hard drive, before you can use it. Means you'd have to email them to re-register the software....and you've got to hope they trust you.It's a horribly time consuming thing. Can't you just get a group of kids to reload it all for you at the cost of $0.50 an hour (or is that illegal outside of Asia?)

[davewalton]

Quote: Stuff like Trilogy and East West have a complicated registering software that ID's your operating system, and sometimes the ID of your hard drive, before you can use it. Means you'd have to email them to re-register the software....and you've got to hope they trust you.I got a bigger primary hard drive a little while ago and every piece of music software thought I had a different computer. So... re-register everything, etc.As far as Trilogy (Spectrasonics) and East West go, they have a prettty slick online registration. I can't remember if this applies to one or both, but they allow two open registrations at any one time. If you take up more than the two slots (because of frequent hardware changes, etc), you just replace the oldest registration with the new one.I also had a catastrophic failure sometime back where my entire system went "KABOOM"... memory chips, CPU, and two mirrored hard drives all at once. I had everything backed up but still, it's a time consuming process.

[og]

Not only am I re-backing up my backups, but I'm doing some preventative cable wrangling--I've got grandkids from time to time!!!

[thestudioaz]

Quote:Not only am I re-backing up my backups, but I'm doing some preventative cable wrangling--I've got grandkids from time to time!!!Yeah, it was the cable that did me in, LOL! Wait, why am I laughing.....

[johnnydean1]

This must be the week for cables and disasters!!!Like most project studio owners I work in a confined space.I needed to plug something or other in can't remember what,and in the process slipped and fell back and trod on the cable which powers my fairly expensive mic,wrenching the cable from the mic socket.Oh dear I thought,(or words to that effect) more expense.Had I damaged the mic.....probably...had I damaged the cable,definatly as the pieces were on the floor.I checked the mic and a couple of the pins were bent so I managed to straighten them then I plugged what was left of the cable into the mic and would you beleive it,it worked.So the moral of the story is....................well I can't think of one can you

[booker]

Um.... if the music industry gets you bent...just straighten up.... and... you'll get work?

[mazz]

Sorry to hear about your disaster.I concur that restoring the data yourself by re-downloading, registering, etc. is the best solution. The data recovery people get a pretty penny for what they do, understandably so.I've gotten in to the habit of burning a CD everytime I buy a downloadable library. Hard drives will crash eventually, either by a clumsy accident or by mechanical failure due to age, etc.Good luck,Mazz