ProTools 8 and Windows 7

BAdD0gg · Sep 13, 2009, 07:05 AM

Hey all I was wondering if anyone has had any problems with ProTools 8 and Windows 7. I have been running it ok but I keep getting the hardware buffer warning and the Hard drive read warning. It doesnt slow me down all that much cause i can just cancel and get along with my session. It hasnt happened to me yet when recording, but it happens if Im doing post and the video is up and I am scrubbing through it or trying to do a bunch of RTASing. My system is able to handle things just fine but the hard drive error I get really worries me. I am afraid I am going to get that when I am recording which will stop everything. Any ideas? Or am I cool?

**dj_stick** · Sep 13, 2009, 01:26 PM

Are you recording to the system drive, or a secondary drive dedicated for audio (like Digidesign recommend)

The more you do that involves reading/writing to the disk drive, video, audio etc will eat up your bandwidth

that, in addition to Windows' own disk caching & indexing services is what's probably causing your disk too slow error

best bet would be to grab a secondary disk drive for audio work

BAdD0gg · Sep 14, 2009, 04:30 AM

I have a partition set up but what you said makes perfect sense. I was hoping to not have to pick up another internal but it looks like I am going to have to. Thanks for the info Stick

**dj_stick** · Sep 15, 2009, 05:34 AM

even if you grab a relatively small capacity drive, you can just copy over what ever projects you're currently working on, and once you've finished, move them back to the larger drive

Sep 13, 2009, 07:05 AM	#1
BAdD0gg HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Seattle Washington Posts: 54 Rep Power: 45 System Specs	ProTools 8 and Windows 7 Hey all I was wondering if anyone has had any problems with ProTools 8 and Windows 7. I have been running it ok but I keep getting the hardware buffer warning and the Hard drive read warning. It doesnt slow me down all that much cause i can just cancel and get along with my session. It hasnt happened to me yet when recording, but it happens if Im doing post and the video is up and I am scrubbing through it or trying to do a bunch of RTASing. My system is able to handle things just fine but the hard drive error I get really worries me. I am afraid I am going to get that when I am recording which will stop everything. Any ideas? Or am I cool?

Sep 14, 2009, 04:30 AM	Thread Starter #3
BAdD0gg HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Seattle Washington Posts: 54 Rep Power: 45 System Specs	Re: ProTools 8 and Windows 7 I have a partition set up but what you said makes perfect sense. I was hoping to not have to pick up another internal but it looks like I am going to have to. Thanks for the info Stick