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Posted by Carlos Pereira on Apr-09-2007 14:13:

Question about Beatport downloads...

From the looks of it, I might have to reformat my laptop. I have a desktop pc where I can save all my music and such, but I'm running extremely low on HD space on that. If any, I'd rather loose any or all of my already downloaded beatport tracks and retrieve them later (re-download). Is that possible?

I read the FAQ on the site and didnt see anything within that region. Steve I remember I while back you had posted something about how you were able to download some tracks from beatport after a new pc purchse or something like that. Were you able to retrieve those or how did that work?

Posted by jonas on Apr-09-2007 14:19:

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Originally posted by architect1803
From the looks of it, I might have to reformat my laptop. I have a desktop pc where I can save all my music and such, but I'm running extremely low on HD space on that. If any, I'd rather loose any or all of my already downloaded beatport tracks and retrieve them later (re-download). Is that possible?

I read the FAQ on the site and didnt see anything within that region. Steve I remember I while back you had posted something about how you were able to download some tracks from beatport after a new pc purchse or something like that. Were you able to retrieve those or how did that work?

Yep. You can email them with your invoices or just give them your user name. They can repost them to your library if they aren't in there. They are about to change the way they have their DL's to be like djdownload.com, where you can DL it twice. But email them first and see what they say. Another option is to get a cheap external hard drive with a back up and save them to that while you reformat. I had to do that before and I save everything to my external now.

Posted by Carlos Pereira on Apr-09-2007 14:30:

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Originally posted by djjonas
Yep. You can email them with your invoices or just give them your user name. They can repost them to your library if they aren't in there. They are about to change the way they have their DL's to be like djdownload.com, where you can DL it twice. But email them first and see what they say. Another option is to get a cheap external hard drive with a back up and save them to that while you reformat. I had to do that before and I save everything to my external now.

Thing is, there's an error message that won't let me boot to windows. [0x80004005]. Gonna have to pull this laptop apart again and transfer files while I numb windows temporarily. Err I hate electronics.

I'll definitely inquire with beatport. Thanks dude!

Posted by jonas on Apr-09-2007 14:33:

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Originally posted by architect1803
Thing is, there's an error message that won't let me boot to windows. [0x80004005]. Gonna have to pull this laptop apart again and transfer files while I numb windows temporarily. Err I hate electronics.

I'll definitely inquire with beatport. Thanks dude!

Is that a fatal error? Do you get the blue screen that won't allow you to go through boot up processes?

Posted by BoReD365247 on Apr-09-2007 14:39:

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Originally posted by architect1803
Thing is, there's an error message that won't let me boot to windows. [0x80004005]. Gonna have to pull this laptop apart again and transfer files while I numb windows temporarily. Err I hate electronics.

I'll definitely inquire with beatport. Thanks dude!

You can bring your computer by the ITS helpdesk and we'll connect it to an external hard drive adapter if you pull out the drive. Just bring a CD/DVD/Flashdrive/ webspace and we'll put it on there for you. Its free so its just an option, since i know you go to UT.

Posted by Carlos Pereira on Apr-09-2007 15:01:

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Originally posted by BoReD365247
You can bring your computer by the ITS helpdesk and we'll connect it to an external hard drive adapter if you pull out the drive. Just bring a CD/DVD/Flashdrive/ webspace and we'll put it on there for you. Its free so its just an option, since i know you go to UT.

The only thing that won't be free is the gas from Houston to Austin.

Thanks anyways bro.

Posted by Carlos Pereira on Apr-09-2007 15:04:

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Originally posted by djjonas
Is that a fatal error? Do you get the blue screen that won't allow you to go through boot up processes?

Naw. It says "windows cannot acquire the license info and connot run windows" I can go through boot but it'll stop right there. When I click on the user icon to access windows, the thing pop up again and says the same.

That's what happens when you pay someone to install windows for you. The license is what's not letting me through. I don't have a genuine copy of windows. If I loose all my crap because of this I'm sending some troops to that kid's house.

Posted by BoReD365247 on Apr-09-2007 15:07:

you could just get one of those external kits from like compusa/bestbuy type deals and slave it to your main home PC and that should at least let you back up your files before you have to reformat it. There are ways to do some formats where you wont lose files but you'll just overwrite the windows installation. You may want to look up repair install or a dirty install. Those might be some solutions but no guarantees. Yea WGA and windows can suck it.

Posted by Carlos Pereira on Apr-09-2007 20:44:

got it back up and running. had my friend take a look at it. thanks for the advice Steve and BoReD

Posted by AMP on Apr-09-2007 22:43:

Yeah, just e-mail them. If you can't back them all up.... I work for iTunes and we do the same thing. You get a 1 time exception... beyotch!

Posted by jonas on Apr-09-2007 22:47:

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Originally posted by architect1803
got it back up and running. had my friend take a look at it. thanks for the advice Steve and BoReD

I would still recommend either partitioning your HD or getting an external for your music. I know my directory has grown to about 8 gig and I would hate to keep that on my PC. Just a thought.

Posted by Carlos Pereira on Apr-09-2007 22:51:

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Originally posted by djjonas
I would still recommend either partitioning your HD or getting an external for your music. I know my directory has grown to about 8 gig and I would hate to keep that on my PC. Just a thought.

Will do man. Infact I'm looking at some pretty tasty prices here on eBay for new external hd's. I don't know how I didn't ever think of that

Posted by AMP on Apr-09-2007 22:55:

Fucking chumps. I've got 540GIGS of space... and guess how much I have available lol. Either way.. gotta have back up of the back up of the label shit.. u know? sucks balls but..i'd be FUCKED if I lost it all.

Fucked.

Posted by Carlos Pereira on Apr-09-2007 22:56:

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Originally posted by AMP
Fucking chumps. I've got 540GIGS of space... and guess how much I have available lol. Either way.. gotta have back up or the back up of the label shit.. u know? sucks balls but..i'd be FUCKED if I lost it all.

Fucked.

Your grandkids are gonna die and that hard drive will still have space available. That's a fuck load dude.

Posted by AMP on Apr-09-2007 23:03:

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Originally posted by architect1803
Your grandkids are gonna die and that hard drive will still have space available. That's a fuck load dude.

hard drive S. And I've only got like 42 gigs left available. Need to clean some shit lol

Posted by Carlos Pereira on Apr-09-2007 23:17:

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Originally posted by AMP
hard drive S. And I've only got like 42 gigs left available. Need to clean some shit lol

AMP = Porn King

Posted by AMP on Apr-09-2007 23:20:

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Originally posted by architect1803
AMP = Porn King

hah. I don't have time for porn. I make my own porn.. wtf. HOWEVER.. I do lub da music and umm I hate throwing good ch00ns away.

PLUS I have like 5 years of my music on this bitch.. so.. lol... that's a lot of mixes, eh?

Posted by Matthias on Apr-10-2007 01:36:

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Originally posted by architect1803
If any, I'd rather loose any or all of my already downloaded beatport tracks and retrieve them later (re-download). Is that possible?

I had a malicious virus take out my old hard drive worth of material last June. After emailing Beatport with the situation and the invoices, I was allowed to redownload everything I purchased from them.

To ensure I dont lose this shit again I bought 2 hard drives. Both have copies of all the musical work, one is connected to the computer, one isn't and stored somewhere safe. Seems like a good solution.

Posted by BoReD365247 on Apr-10-2007 05:50:

yea working at that helpdesk makes me a strong advocate for backing up data. I have to tell around 2 people a day that their computers are dead and there is no way of getting their data back. The files most missed are pictures and music. I have around 500 gigs or so of data I should back up, but im lazy Maybe i should take my own advice....but at least my hard drives are partitioned to prevent any mishaps with windows.