Program Suggestion

[Conc]

Wow.  Quite a Sharecrow discussion.  I know it's been said before, but here is how Sharecrow works:

1.  Pop a movie DVD into your computer's DVD drive
2.  Download your Rifftrax
3.  Using Sharecrow, you can assign the Rifftrax to play in sync with the DVD.  It doesn't record anything onto the DVD, or require any reauthoring. 

If you have any other questions, just email me.  Thanks!

Steve

[torgosPizza]

Yes, I know...
I really don't have a choice, except to swap my larger D: drive with my C: drive; reset the jumpers, reset the cables, reinstall WXP, reinstall all my programs, and then contact Microsoft and reset WXP for the new configuration (at least swapping the CD writer with a DVD drive won't make me have to re-register WXP with the "Home Base" unless I do it more than 3 times every 4 month).

If you have a spare $50, an extra drive, and a USB port on your computer, you can get an external case for internal IDE drives. I have one from Mad Dog, into which I popped in an old IDE drive that I had no other need for. It has all of my music and program installation backups on it. You don't even notice the difference. I constantly play music (streaming from my home to the RiffTrax offices) and it runs like a dream.

[scottrkrv]

Yes, I know...
I really don't have a choice, except to swap my larger D: drive with my C: drive; reset the jumpers, reset the cables, reinstall WXP, reinstall all my programs, and then contact Microsoft and reset WXP for the new configuration (at least swapping the CD writer with a DVD drive won't make me have to re-register WXP with the "Home Base" unless I do it more than 3 times every 4 month).

If you have a spare $50, an extra drive, and a USB port on your computer, you can get an external case for internal IDE drives. I have one from Mad Dog, into which I popped in an old IDE drive that I had no other need for. It has all of my music and program installation backups on it. You don't even notice the difference. I constantly play music (streaming from my home to the RiffTrax offices) and it runs like a dream.

Spare drives and spare USB ports I have (3 HDD, 3 CD and 1 DVD, plus "oodles" of USB ports via chaining (even w/o chaining I have 3 or 4)...Spare $50 I have even...

Now how can a IDE drive hook-up to a USB port?

[scottrkrv]

Yes, I know...
I really don't have a choice, except to swap my larger D: drive with my C: drive; reset the jumpers, reset the cables, reinstall WXP, reinstall all my programs, and then contact Microsoft and reset WXP for the new configuration (at least swapping the CD writer with a DVD drive won't make me have to re-register WXP with the "Home Base" unless I do it more than 3 times every 4 month).

If you have a spare $50, an extra drive, and a USB port on your computer, you can get an external case for internal IDE drives. I have one from Mad Dog, into which I popped in an old IDE drive that I had no other need for. It has all of my music and program installation backups on it. You don't even notice the difference. I constantly play music (streaming from my home to the RiffTrax offices) and it runs like a dream.

Spare drives and spare USB ports I have (3 HDD, 3 CD and 1 DVD, plus "oodles" of USB ports via chaining (even w/o chaining I have 3 or 4)...Spare $50 I have even...

Now how can a IDE drive hook-up to a USB port?

Specifically, doesn't the IDE drive need a power source?

[MrTorso]

With one of these:

http://mdmm.com/spec.php?productid=37

[scottrkrv]

With one of these:

http://mdmm.com/spec.php?productid=37

Ah.

AC power cable.

[scottrkrv]

With one of these:

http://mdmm.com/spec.php?productid=37

Ah.

AC power cable.

Oh...wait...
only works for 3.5 drives (ie, HDD or floppy or ZIP)
I really don't need that, as I have plenty of HDD space, just not on my "C:" drive (plus I can use USB "flash" drives).
I wanted to be able to use both my CD-RW and DVD drives.

[scottrkrv]

With one of these:

http://mdmm.com/spec.php?productid=37

Ah.

AC power cable.

Oh...wait...
only works for 3.5 drives (ie, HDD or floppy or ZIP)
I really don't need that, as I have plenty of HDD space, just not on my "C:" drive (plus I can use USB "flash" drives).
I wanted to be able to use both my CD-RW and DVD drives.

I will admit the DVD burners are tempting me to replace my current CD burner, but the $130 price is a bit steep for something I already own (stand-alone) and can futz around with (since it has a VCR built-in, plus several audio/video inputs as well).

[scottrkrv]

With one of these:

http://mdmm.com/spec.php?productid=37

Ah.

AC power cable.

Oh...wait...
only works for 3.5 drives (ie, HDD or floppy or ZIP)
I really don't need that, as I have plenty of HDD space, just not on my "C:" drive (plus I can use USB "flash" drives).
I wanted to be able to use both my CD-RW and DVD drives.

I will admit the DVD burners are tempting me to replace my current CD burner, but the $130 price is a bit steep for something I already own (stand-alone) and can futz around with (since it has a VCR built-in, plus several audio/video inputs as well).

Yeah, and I really should read the entire site... I see there are USB connectors for optical drives as well.

Never mind my above comments...

[scottrkrv]

With one of these:

http://mdmm.com/spec.php?productid=37

Ah.

AC power cable.

Oh...wait...
only works for 3.5 drives (ie, HDD or floppy or ZIP)
I really don't need that, as I have plenty of HDD space, just not on my "C:" drive (plus I can use USB "flash" drives).
I wanted to be able to use both my CD-RW and DVD drives.

I will admit the DVD burners are tempting me to replace my current CD burner, but the $130 price is a bit steep for something I already own (stand-alone) and can futz around with (since it has a VCR built-in, plus several audio/video inputs as well).

Yeah, and I really should read the entire site... I see there are USB connectors for optical drives as well.

Never mind my above comments...

Actually, screw it; the site's "sellers" either don't have the product in stock, or don't have it at the listed price.

[MrTorso]

CompUSA sells them. I got my enclosure for a HDD for $39.99 from them.

[scottrkrv]

P.S. Also, it's really un safe to have your drives that full.  A professor at my school had an external hard drive completely crash because he un intentionally tried to capture more video footage to the drive than it had space for.  The drive was toast after that.  In other words, don't fill up your drives.

Yes, I know...
I really don't have a choice, except to swap my larger D: drive with my C: drive; reset the jumpers, reset the cables, reinstall WXP, reinstall all my programs, and then contact Microsoft and reset WXP for the new configuration (at least swapping the CD writer with a DVD drive won't make me have to re-register WXP with the "Home Base" unless I do it more than 3 times every 4 month).

I'm sure no one even cares any more , but this is what I was forced to do, as WXP totally choked on me Wednesday (2/14/07). Now I have plenty of space on my C: & E: drives, and my D: drive (ex-C:) will carry my video programs, and C: will be the transfer drive (I'm sure I said that wrong, but anyone that even cares at this point knows what I mean...)

[Sidenote---reinstalling  WXP on an existing drive w/o reformatting the drive before doing FDISK was a big no-no; it probably took 3-5 times longer than simply adding a "new" drive and installing on that drive.  I should have known this, as I had to reinstall WXP twice already (but always on the same drive). I made a "journal" if I ever have to do it again!]

Thanks all anyway.