So about 10 months after we installed the original program, and perhaps 7 months after DJ Supreme started gigging with the system, we finally bit the bullet and went for the upgrade.
October 30, 2003
The system is run on a Compaq Presario 1500 (40 GB single FAT32 partition, Windows Xp Home)
Here's the blow-by-blow:
- Inserted CD, rebooted and ran the new system right off the disk in "No install" mode. Worked beautifully! Things are looking promising.
- The new Traktor FS 1.1 install program won't install on a an existing partition. I read NI's explanation on why but as far as I'm concerned, that dog don't hunt.
- You have to run the Partion Wizard tool to shrink the partition. This after we defragged the drive and tripled-checked to make sure we had enough free space on the partition (it needs 400MB, we had 23GB). Turns out it can't shrink a partition unless there is some already unused/anallocated space on the drive. (Now why would anyone ship a preconfigured consumer system with unallocated drive space?!)
- Take a deep breath.
- Locate a copy of Partition Magic 8. That's one expensive piece of software.
- Install Partion Magic 8 in WinXP.
- Run PM8 and try to resize (shrink) the partition. Error 2003.
- Run CHKDSK - ok
- Run SCANDISK - found and fixed some bad sectors
- Run PM8 again and resize (shrink) partion and create a new 1 GB unformatted partition. (Yeah I know, extra watsed space. After 4 hours of this I was getting tired.)
- Verify (in Windows Explorer Tools) the size and integrity of the shrunked partition and the new one. - Ok
- Verify both partitions in PM8. - Ok
- Reboot with Traktor CD inserted
- Install Traktor FS 1.1 using option 3 (Use existing partition -- All data will be lost) **when you see warnings like this you try to find any way around selecting that option, even when it's really the one you need
- Selected the new 1GB partition for install target.
- Reboot.
- Voila. It works. We now have Traktor FinalScrath 1.1 ready to go. :)
We're working on removing the ground loop hum that becomes almost unbearable when we play vinyl. We've got 2 isolators, but so far we haven't come up with a solution.
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