Where did Vegas 3 come from?

Maverick wrote on 3/14/2005, 4:44 PM
Hi

I was looking through my Programs folder and noticed two - Soundic Foundry & Sonic Foundry Setup.

The Sonic Foundry Setup has one folder - Vegas Video Plug-In Pack

The Sonic Foundry folder has Vegas 3 with several subfolders.

Considering I have just replaced the MB, CPU & Graphics Card and re-installed everything from scartch going straight to Vegas 5d and DVDA2 I am surprised to See references to Vegas 3.

Can these be deleted or are they actually required.

Cheers

Comments

Rednroll wrote on 3/14/2005, 4:54 PM
I recently reinstalled everything on one of my systems and have no reference to Sonic Foundry. You mentioned that you re-installed everything, but you didn't say you got a new hard drive or completely reformated the hard drive you are using. I would have to assume then, the Sonic Foundry stuff is left over from what is on that Hard drive.
Maverick wrote on 3/14/2005, 5:01 PM
With the new MB installation I had to re-install Windows 2000 and I refornmatted th HDD to rid of anything from previous MB
FuTz wrote on 3/15/2005, 5:02 AM

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JJKizak wrote on 3/15/2005, 5:34 AM
If you have more than one hard drive the info from your previous install will reside on that other drive. (Hidden files). Also you have to double "0" the drive before you format it.

JJK
Rednroll wrote on 3/15/2005, 7:05 AM
"Also you have to double "0" the drive before you format it. "

Sorry, I never heard that term before. Although it does remind me of a line out of "Office Space".

"If I get lucky I'll be showing her my 'O' face tonight...Oooooh!!!....Ooooh!!!" :-)
BillyBoy wrote on 3/15/2005, 7:29 AM
Hmm... that's a new one on me too. I suspect the reference is slang for "wiping the drive", ie writing a pattern of zeros, (more typically a pattern of zeros and ones) to overwrite everything on the drive.*

* simply deleted files or even reformatting a drive or "deleting" a partition does not always remove all traces of previous files. Once a file is written to a hard drive it remains, sometimes only chunks of it unless and until it get overwritten with something else. So there are "wipe" utilities (a good one comes with Norton's Utilities) that writes a pattern overwriting "deleted" files with zeros or some pattern of zeros, ones, etc..
JJKizak wrote on 3/15/2005, 7:30 AM
Double "0" is software from usually any hard drive manufacturer that puts zero's on all the segments so that there is absolutely nothing left from previous use. Formatting doesn't do this.

JJK
Quryous wrote on 3/15/2005, 10:04 AM
Removing and then Re-setting your main partition will also wipe EVERYTHING. Maybe the CIA can get stuff back, but normal people can't.