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Appendix E: Hard Drive Configuration and Maintenance 71
Defragmenting Windows Audio Drives
To defragment an audio drive (Windows 7 and
Windows Vista):
1 Click Start.
2 Type “disk defragmenter” in the search field at
the bottom. “Disk Defragmenter” should appear
at the top of the search results.
3 Click the Disk Defragmenter.
4 Click the Defragment disk button (Windows 7)
or the Defragment now button (Windows Vista).
Follow the on-screen instructions.
5 When defragmenting is complete, close the
Disk Defragmenter window.
To defragment an audio drive (Windows XP):
1 Right-click My Computer and choose Manage.
2 Under Storage, choose Disk Defragmenter.
3 In the Disk Defragmenter window, choose the
drive you want to defragment
4 Click the Defragment button and follow the
on-screen instructions.
5 When defragmenting is complete, close the
Computer Management window.
Using Mac Drives on Windows
Systems
Pro Tools for Windows lets you record and play
back sessions directly from a Mac-formatted
(HFS+) drive connected to a Windows system.
This functionality requires that all Mac session
and audio files be stored on Mac-formatted
drives.
During Pro Tools installation, make sure to se-
lect the Mac HFS+ Disk Support option. This op-
tion lets your Pro Tools system read, write, re-
cord, and play back using Mac-formatted HFS+
disks.
Formatting and Maintaining HFS+
Drives
To format and partition any drives as HFS+, con-
nect the drives to a Mac computer and use the
Apple OS X Disk Utility to format the drives as
Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
In Windows 7 you can Ctrl-Click on the
drive names to select multiple drives to de-
fragment, and once more than one drive is
selected, the button changes to “Defrag-
ment disks.”
The “Defragment Now” (Vista only) com-
mand defragments all your hard drives.
This can take a lot of time, especially on
systems with multiple drives.
Advanced users can use the command line
tool Defrag.exe to defragment individual
drives. See your Windows Vista documen-
tation for more information.
For information on sharing sessions be-
tween Mac and Windows systems, see the
Pro Tools Reference Guide (Help >
Pro Tools Reference Guide).