Moving St2 Instrument folder to new hard drive

[kz1m9w]

pheeleep,

Congrats - I'm glad it worked for you. And I guess that almost definitely defines the problem in Sampletank's browser as being related to FAT32.

In fact, I might have to convert my FAT32 sounds partition to NTFS when I get home tonight.

I think I'll give it a try myself tonight, as I've also been experiencing exactly the same problem. I did log it with IK some time ago, but gave up waiting for a reply.

Cheers

Well, changing the partition from FAT32 to NTFS did the trick for me also.

Me too! It worked. I'm running Windows 2000 with all drives formatted at FAT32 except now my "sample" drive is NTFS. And converting it achieved the desired results for me just as the other have reported - it fixed the order that Sampletank's browser lists the sounds. Now it is alphatbetical just as it should be!

Here are some details for anyone else that comes after me.

- When I converted it, I was surprised by a few things. Mostly at how quickly it happened. For a 30 Gb drive that is 60% occupied, the whole thing took only a few minutes (maybe 2 or 3 total).

- I opened up a command prompt window (from within Windows 2000), and typed the following command:
convert e: /fs ntfs

- It gave a little message and asked for the volume label. I typed that in (it verifies it matches the existing name and doesn't proceed unless they match).

- It said the drive was "in use" or something to that effect and asked if I wanted to convert upon the next restart. I chose yes.

- I restarted my computer, and chckdsk took a moment to run.

- It did that and then seemed to reboot 2 or 3 more times - each time seeming to run a chkdsk with it additionally dispalying a message. This occurred so quickly, I was unsure what was happening. At first, I was afraid it was not succeeding since it happened so quickly, but I was patient and just waited it out.

- Finally, on maybe the 4th automatic reboot, it displayed a message that said "Drive is already in NTFS format" or something like that. And it then booted all the way up to Windows 2000.

- Now in Windows 2000, I looked at the drive using "My computer" as well as Windows explorer. Looked fine. I could still see all my soundsets. And the drive reported to be NTFS.

- I checked to see if I needed to defrag the drive, it said I did not.

- I opened up several apps that use Sampletank 2 XL. The soundsets were still in the same order (as I expected). So, I enabled the "relist" feature and after that processed for a few seconds, the list was finally in alphabetic order.

Problem solved! Maybe a little scary, but not so painful as I had imagined.

Thanks to those of you that posted in this thread!

Randy

[spillway]

I just got a new computer and paritioned the hard drive.

I experienced this same FAT32 reverse listing.

But my question is, which performs better:

1. Having instrument files in the default location
2. Having the files in a seperate FAT32
3. Having the files in a seperate NTFS

I don't care if it is listed in reverse if it performs better.

Thanks for your help.

[Kim Lajoie]

I just got a new computer and paritioned the hard drive.

I experienced this same FAT32 reverse listing.

But my question is, which performs better:

1. Having instrument files in the default location
2. Having the files in a seperate FAT32
3. Having the files in a seperate NTFS

I don't care if it is listed in reverse if it performs better.

Thanks for your help.

The type of filesystem will only make a very small difference to the loading speed of ST2 samples. If you want the fastest loading speed, put the samples on the fastest drive you have.

-Kim.