When I attach my audiophile hardrive to my Surface Pro laptop (windows 10 pro), it shows up as being on the "E" drive. But when I try the same thing on a new Dell XPS desktop w/windows 10, "E" is NOT available! I've tried all the "fixes" from the internet, but to no avail. Thanks, JZ
Is it that it's not E: or that it's a different drive letter or that you don't see it at all?
If it's seen by Windows, but just a different drive letter, you can go into drive management and reassign drive letters. I do this all the time. Let us know and we can talk you through it.
John
Laptop-HP Omen I7 Win11Pro 32GB 12TB SSD Desktop-ASUS-I7 Win10Pro 32GB 12TB SATA
Yes, John . . . When I plug BIAB into the new computer, it does not show "E" at all; as if, NOT available! Keeps putting it on "F". I even tried to accept that and went into BIAB prefs to change everything to "F", but BIAB wouldn't do it! Thanks. JZ
That's because something else has already claimed the E: drive. Perhaps a DVD drive or another USB or even a memory card reader.
If you need to make the BIAB drive be E: (to keep things consistent), then you need to rearrange the assigned drive letters. And once you do, Windows remembers it (usually).
Click on the start button and type Computer Management and select it when it comes up. In the computer management screen, select Disk Management. From there you can reassign all you drive letters. Find whatever is using E: and assign it something else. Then assign your BIAB drive as E:.
Last edited by jford; 09/23/1702:42 PM.
John
Laptop-HP Omen I7 Win11Pro 32GB 12TB SSD Desktop-ASUS-I7 Win10Pro 32GB 12TB SATA
Along the lines of what John said, I select a letter that's further up the alphabet (like T), so Windows does not bump it when I attach other devices. It is also always the same letter from computer to computer.
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Johnny, you've seen me write that we all have to become computer nerds to work with this stuff. This is a perfect example.
Windows 101: Each system is different. Windows assigns the drive letters according to what is part of THAT SYSTEM ONLY. Just plug in a USB thumb drive and you'll suddenly see it pop up as whatever the next available drive letter is. Of course when you plug the drive into a different system it's assigned a different drive letter. Perfectly normal.
In my case the PG hard drive is J on my system because I have two other external drives connected through a powered USB hub. One time I disconnected one of those drives to plug into a friends computer and shut mine off. When I rebooted the PGM drive now showed as I. Why? Because the drive I disconnected was the "I" but I removed it so now the PG drive is I. Rather than reassigning it inside Biab I plugged my other drive back in and disconnected the PG drive and rebooted. Now that drive is I. Then I plugged in the PG drive and it was automatically assigned the next drive letter which is J.
Simple once you become the nerd that so many on these forums don't want to be. "Hey, all I want to is play music," blah, blah. How many times have we seen that around here?
Sorry to sound like your 6th grade teacher but you must understand how your computer works too.
Matt: Then can I then "change" the drive letter to "E" somehow? The reason being that when I go into BIAB prefs, it won't let me change where the drums and realtracks are. I used to be able to do that, but alas . . . !
You can, but don’t choose E. Windows allocates drive letter assignments in ascending order. If you connect a BIAB drive to more than one machine, you are better off using a ‘high’ letter.
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The reason being that when I go into BIAB prefs, it won't let me change where the drums and realtracks are. I used to be able to do that, but alas...
Now this is a completely different problem from Windows misassigning the drive letter to your external drive. You should be able to tell BIAB where the RTs and RDs are. However, you have to do it correctly for it to work. Are you not even getting the dialog box to do so?
You should be able to open RealTracks Preferences and check the box that says "Use a custom folder location for the RealTracks". You can then select the folder where your RealTracks are located (on the external USB, assuming the E: drive, it would be "e:\BB\RealTracks"). There is a similar setting for RealDrums in the RealDrums preferences. There, the location would be "e:\BB\Drums".
John
Laptop-HP Omen I7 Win11Pro 32GB 12TB SSD Desktop-ASUS-I7 Win10Pro 32GB 12TB SATA
Hey guys! Problems solved! Matt: That "T" drive thing worked perfectly. Now each of my computers has BIAB on the "T" drive. And John, you too were right on; The program then saw "by itself" that I had installed BIAB on the "T" drive . . . It was like magic! All the drums and tracks read automatically and perfectly from that drive. Finally, A New and Hilarious problem: Be sure, that when you are installing the program onto a new machine, that you unfreeze "frozen" tracks and refresh them, or you may think your audio card is NOT working!!!! Ha! Ha! That one took me a frustrating hour to figure out! "Just unfreeze the tracks and refresh "dodo"; they'll all start to play like they just received their paychecks! Ha! Thanks everyone for all your sacrificial and appreciated input. Back to "Having Fun", JZ
Ha! That's so neat, computer science!! Well, with all this that's been happening, along came the other day, and I couldn't play in tune with one of the tracks till I remembered . . . "I was on a "C" trumpet!!!
Johnny, I have trumpets pitched in Bb, C, D, Eb, F, G and A and often have more than one on the stand. The C and Bb together is the worst because they look so alike on the stand that I used to reach for the wrong one. I solved it by putting the gold-plated mouthpiece on the C, and the regular silver on the Bb. Still gets me once in awhile.
Mac, a former poster on this forum, told one of the funniest C / Bb trumpet stories here that I ever heard. As first trumpet in an all-something orchestra, he had a Bb trumpet. The conductor said, wouldn't that sound better on a C? So he reached down with his horn, took out the mouthpiece, passed the horn under his seat, replaced the mouthpiece, and played the same Bb horn. The conductor said, "Much better!".
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Matt and "experienced" group! Here's one the Welk musicians will NEVER forget. Lawrence walked in one day to rehearsal and asked Richard Maloof, our bass player, if THAT was the same bass he had been playing during the morning set? Richard said . . "Oh yes, Lawrence"! "It's the same one"! Lawrence replied . . . "I donn tink so Richard"! "Dis one has "too many nodes" on it"!
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