![]() ![]() If you haven’t cleaned out your download folder, the zip files might all still be there. ![]() I always save working drivers and Passwords/auto codes on my backup disk, in case of building from scratch. and it could be a pain trying to get everything working again. The problem with win7 MSFT doesn’t support it anymore, and that leads to companies not putting money into it either. And copy the important stuff again to Google drive or Dropbox etc. So first, get and hookup a cheap TB USB drive and copy the audio over so you have that worst case. Your audio files on a another drive will be fine, unless some really weird Windows setup was used that I can’t think of. Now that that's out of the way, anyone have any advice and/or have done this before?Įdit: This may belong in the Studio Build thread, so feel free to move it. It's old, it's Windows 7, it's not a Mac. I think it is still a capable machine if I can get a fresh start.not sure if it's worth adding in an SSD. There's the cost issue, and the fact that the last and only time I did this before I had someone walking me through every step of the PC build. I suppose the safest thing to do is to spin up an entirely new PC and try to transfer over slowly, but that's not in the cards at the moment. Just feels like I don't have a good handle on how everything is configured and I'm nervous about not being able to reestablish functionality, whether that be actual program usage, hardware connections, or file paths. My main concerns are things like plugins and authentication for those that reside on the OS drive, drivers for my RME Multiface II, it's software, and the PCI card, Sonarworks for headphones, and any other programs I've downloaded and authenticated to over the years including the licensing and paths for them to operate. I have a second hard drive where all of my audio files are.I'm guessing that would be unaffected by a reinstall of the OS. The PC ran really well when built, and I had maxed out the RAM at 16 GB at the time. Now it's starting to impact Reaper as well. Lately I've been running into more glitches and hiccups, even trying to just play back files using Windows Media Player. I'm still running Windows 7, as I haven't wanted to mess anything up by upgrading. ![]() I've got a 13 year-old PC I built for my DAW. ![]()
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