Win ME to Win XP Rephrase

pjam wrote on 8/16/2003, 7:04 AM

OK let me rephrase, is it OK to install Win XP clean install, new hard drive, then reinstall Vegas and load my incomplete project and continue? the reason is my project is really testing my current configuration and I think it is going to be very difficult to get a finished product.

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jetdv wrote on 8/16/2003, 8:29 AM

Well.... it OUGHT to work. It would be like taking the project to another computer so it may have problems locating the files until you tell Vegas where they are.

pjam wrote on 8/16/2003, 9:08 AM

Ok Cool, thats my thought process. Cheers.

BillyBoy wrote on 8/16/2003, 9:58 AM

It DOES work. One suggestion. Before you do, if you can, move EVERYTHING in you unfinished project to a single folder. Set up sub folders if you wish to be more organized. Then let Vegas find everything anew while still on the old system. So in effect you have everything pointed to and Vegas knows where it is. Then once you have your new system built you only have to worry about finding ONE folder, not a whole bunch if they're scattered all over the place. Of course don't forget to copy that folder over to the new system and don't forget the VEG file!

pjam wrote on 8/16/2003, 6:32 PM

Thanks guys so much to think about, at the moment my worry is I've backed up everything on to a seperate hard driive, but this file system thing? if I set my new install with XP to NTFS will I be able to copy across from the other drives wich are FAT 32 or do I need to convert those too? Arrgh!

BillyBoy wrote on 8/16/2003, 9:44 PM

Windows can convert your present FAT 32 to NTFS (if you version of Windows supports NTFS) and NOT hurt your files. There is a slight risk a file could get corrupted if for example you had a system hang in the process. I've done it many times without a problem. If you decide to do it (Windows help gives you the simple step by step) don't panic once it starts because its a blue screen thing, a pale blue screen that shows the files flying by being converted not the dreaded BSD (blue screen of death thing people freak over.

You can go from FAT32 to NTFS, but it isn't as easy to go back to FAT 32. Supposedly you can with something like Partition Magic (never tried) but the point is once you switch to NTFS you'll never want to go back to FAT 32.

As far as changes they're mostly in the background. Windows is still Windows. The biggest thing you see is no more file size limitations. And if you do suffer some kind of file system crash the first thing Windows tries on its own is to fix itself and it usually can. So really all good things.