Dead in the water for a while.... Computer issues...

Posted on Oct 01, 2004 11:29 am
riffgod
www.charlienaebeck.com
Member Since: Apr 10, 2004

Morning everyone,

Well, I am officially down for the count for a while and cannot record without a new computer. Got home yesterday and went to fire up my Compaq Presario 2100 laptop and it made a very odd noise and immediately shut back down.. Just by the noise it made I knew it was not a good sign and with a further diagnostic of it, I found it has a fried power supply which is of course built into the motherboard and is non-replacable by its self and you have to buy a whole new motherboard for the system for around $600-$1500 in which from asking around just to be sure of my findings from several other tech folks I am better off purchasing a new laptop all together.

So today... my new adventure is to strip the hard drive out of the system and put it into a 2.5 case so that I can extract my data from the drive which we were able to get running in a different case at a friends house. I must say Thank God for DVD burners and backups of session files and what not.... lol I had been working on some session files for a couple albums with folks for well over a year now and I cannot stress enough how important it always is to have a backup copy of things and then even have a backup of your backup to be on the safe side.

This whole deal though does give me a new excuse to go out and purchase the Mac G5 that I have been wanting for a while now anyways so I can take the laptop out of the studio and use it for something else, which leads me to my question for my fellow techs out there.... I know I have all my session files saved with Mac/PC enforced compatibility... That is not my concern... However, Being that the laptop was an XP formatted drive, would I have any trouble reading it to extract data to my new machine "as is" on a G5/OSX system without dragging the data to another PC first to recover? I just want to make sure that when I plug the drive into a Mac system as opposed to a PC that I am not going to come across any little "suprises" with data conversion and what not between the two drives talking? Please let me know if you guys have any good theorys on the smoothest way to accomplish this. It'll probably be a few months before I can get the G5 or build another PC anyhow which gives me time to work on this... Thanks in advance

Charlie

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