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Chapter 2: Windows Conﬁguration 15

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Hard Drive Conﬁguration and

Maintenance

Formatting an Audio Drive

On Windows, it is recommended that you start

with newly formatted drives dedicated for au-

dio, such as a secondary hard drive purchased

just for audio. For optimum performance, audio

drives should be formatted with the FAT32 or

NTFS file system.

To format and conﬁgure an audio drive:

1 Right-click My Computer and choose Man-

age.

2 Under Storage, choose Disk Management.

3 In the Disk Management window, right-click

the hard drive you will use for audio and choose

Format.

4 For optimal disk performance, select 32K from

the Allocation unit size pull-down. This in-

creases how efﬁciently audio data is written to

and read from the drive.

5 Make sure the Quick Format option is dese-

lected, then click Start, and follow the on-screen

instructions.

6 When formatting is complete, close the For-

mat window.

Audio Drives and Disk Cleanup

The process of recording, editing, and deleting

tracks and sessions can quickly decrease overall

drive performance. It is suggested that you regu-

larly use Disk Cleanup (or an equivalent utility)

to asses the condition of drives and, if necessary,

delete temporary files and other unused data.

To use Disk Cleanup:

1 Choose Start > Control Panel.

2 In Classic View, launch Administrative Tools.

3 Double-click Computer Management.

4 Double-click Storage.

5 Double-click Disk Management.

6 Select the desired volume in the list, then

choose File > Options.

Disk Cleanup determines how performance is

being affected by drive condition, and lets you

review and delete temporary and other unneces-

sary files from the selected volume. For more in-

formation on using Disk Cleanup, see your Win-

dows XP documentation.

Refer to the Pro Tools Reference Guide (or

choose Help > Pro Tools Reference Guide)

for more information on renaming I/O

paths.

After configuring Pro Tools M-Powered and

your system, you should save an image of

your system using Norton Ghost. Norton

Ghost lets you save and recall known good

configurations of your system and settings,

which can help you recover if you encounter

any problems in the future.

For more information on Ghost, visit the Sy-

mantec Web site (www.symantec.com)

Pro Tools only supports Basic drive Types.

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