About ripping

[boleary]

If I understand well you have two partitions in one hdd, one with Vista and other one with W7. The partition with Vista has internet/antivirus/dBpoweramp. The partition with W7 has the OS and XXHigEnd. You have also another internal hdd where you send "directly" the ripped files. That files are backed up to an external hdd automatically when you plug it in.
Is that correct?

Yes.

I'll give EAC a try as soon as my mother-in- law heads home and I can get back to some serious listening......maybe next weekend.

[PeterSt]

Your mother in law is there the whole week ??
Reason for a divorce I'd say.

Okay okay, but keep your wife.

[boleary]

........ yes you are a mind reader......lessons in patience, this week you may refer to me as "St. Brian."

[Audioturntable]

Upon Juan's reccomendation and post I tried his suggestions and I think I agree with your findings. EAC is quieter more gentle sounding. DB is more like you are there not muffled slightly. Of course I only experimented with 1 blues acoustic track. I suppose now I can use both programs EAC and DBP and have double the files in my computers!
I also agree that the original file burned  to the PC that has XXH installed is slightly better. But if you burn a file in another computer and cut (not copy) the file and transfer it to the XXH computer it is reallly close to the one burned in the XXH computer. The copied file is not as good because I believe it is not the original file. When you cut it I think you are transferring the original file to the usb drive and than cutting it again into the XXH PC. So if you have files in your other computers I say Cut don't copy. Have your backups be copy's stored on another computer. Always have the originals on your Music PC. I now think I will burn every CD once on my other computers using EAC as my backup and then burn them again on my Music PC using DBP.

[manisandher]

Of course I could saved a lot of time following other´s advise (Mani) but I wanted to get here, as I said, by my own ears. Thanks though, Mani.

Hi Juan, sorry it's taken me a while to get around to replying, but I've been a bit busy over the Christmas period...

Thanks for sharing your thoughts (as always) and I'm glad you've found a ripping solution that works for you. As I've said before, if Accuraterip says it's accurate... then it is! And if you can do this with a cheap drive, then all the better.

So I suppose the only issue that remains is how different locations on the storage drive could possible affect SQ... especially as XX is a memory player! This is all too weird!

Mani.

[juanpmar]

Hey Mani, special happy New Year for you and your family!.

I´ve made a partition in my OS/XXHighEnd hdd to rip from there directly to the hdd where I have my music. The partitions give me some problems at reboot because some times this hdd can´t be found in the bios.

Boleary, don´t you have had any problems with your partitions?.

At the end I don´t know if I´ll have to forget about partitions and look for another way to rip directly to the music hdd, at this moment I don´t know how to do it. Any help will be welcome.

Cheers, Juan

[boleary]

Hi Juan, when I boot up I get a DOS-like screen that gives me the option of which OS I want to use. Also, in my system settings in control panel I can select which OS I want to be the default; so if I don't make a choice at initial startup it will go into Vista after 15 or 20 seconds.

I have never had a problem with this set up.

ps: I'd send a picture of the system setting page but I'm at work on an XP machine. Can do it tonight.

[juanpmar]

Thanks boleary, I get the same DOS window as you and the settings in the control panel but I don´t know why once in a while it fails to boot properly.

[boleary]

Maybe I'm not understanding the problem. Are you having a problem with one of the partitions booting or is it that the partition doesn't recognize the drive where you store your music? Is your music drive an external usb or is it an internal drive? Just wondering.

[juanpmar]

Maybe I'm not understanding the problem. Are you having a problem with one of the partitions booting or is it that the partition doesn't recognize the drive where you store your music?

The problem is that once in a while the whole hdd where the partitions are "disappears" from the bios. It doesn´t "exists" anymore and I have to reboot again and again until it appears and is located in the bios, then I have to set again the booting order.

Now it is working ok and I´ve deactivated the virtual memory because I read in some place that it can affect the partitions to boot correctly, but I really don´t know if it could affect other things, neither for how long it will work correctly. If it fails again I´ll tell you the message that appears in the DOS window, I don´t remember exactly but it is something like "restart the system and set the booting order again"

[boleary]

Well, with that problem I can certainly understand why you would want to find a new means of ripping to you music folder. Sure hope disabling the virtual memory solves the problem!

[PeterSt]

I think this will cause some serious problems at some stage ...

But if not, okay.

PS: I too have problems at stages that my system won't boot. Up till checksum errors at the bootstrap file. I never pay attention to it really; another one attempt usually solves it. Sometimes two.

Btw, to me it looks like eSata is involved here; have a disc attached to that, and at least that disc won't be recognized during a boot (shows red). Later it is always there.
But probably it is not related at all, unless you boot from eSata.

[juanpmar]

I think this will cause some serious problems at some stage ...

But if not, okay.

So far it is working fine

Btw, to me it looks like eSata is involved here; have a disc attached to that, and at least that disc won't be recognized during a boot (shows red). Later it is always there.
But probably it is not related at all, unless you boot from eSata.

I´m not using any external hdd, the two hdd I have are internal and are:

C: with two partitions:
- n.1 with OS (W7 Ultimate)/XXHighEnd
- n.2 with OS (W7 Ultimate)/dBpoweramp and EAC, besides Winrar and something else. No updates on any of the partitions and SP1 on both. No internet in the 1 partition and yes in the n.2 plus antivirus (off most of the time)

D: just with Music

To make the partitions I used Parted Magic

Juan

[christoffe]

Btw, to me it looks like eSata is involved here; have a disc attached to that, and at least that disc won't be recognized during a boot (shows red). Later it is always there.

I got the same experience with my PC system.

[boleary]

Hi Juan, don't know if this makes a difference but I created my partition using the onboard "disc management" that Windows provides. Though you  probably already know ( ) you access it through Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Storage. If you highlight the disc you want to partition and right click on it, you create the partition by "Shrinking" the disc.