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[font=verdana] I have a 500GB hard drive that has both Karaoke and DJ music on it.  I use a CAVS 203G player.  When I bring up the screen it gives me the choice of going to the music on the hard drive or playing from a disc.  

My question, Is there anyway to partition the hard drive so it would give me a choice of two different areas of the hard drive? ie: Karaoke or DJ music.  Keep in mind I am not much of a techie, so your instructions would have to be pretty detailed,  or as my mother used to say when she couldn’t get something through my thick skull, “do I have to draw you a picture”..
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Dusty Rose
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you need to ask the cavs folks in their forum.

Blue

I don't know if you really want to partition the drive?  Can the files be distinguished and "searched" for based upon a unique system of naming the files.  If that can't or doesn't work, can you put the files into two different folders - one for KJ and the other for DJ?  The latter method is the one I use on my PC

[font=verdana] I have files 1 through 24 on my hard drive, the last three being the DJ music.  I just thought it would be simpler if I had 2 different locations for the music.   Thanks for the input.
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Personaly I have a folder named "karaoke", and another named "Music" on the same drive. Put the karaoke music in the appropriate folder as well as the music. I really dont understand the 24 folders?

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Seems that there are several ways to handle the filler music thing. I think we probably have the simplest way.  Here is our setup basically: for karaoke, we have MTU hoster on a shuttle; a 17-inch standalone monitor for Hoster application, and a cordless mouse and keyboard.  We have two tv monitors (connected)... On top of the rack we have a laptop that we have loaded all our 'filler' music on (discs that we have purchased over the years, copied into Windows media player)  This is thousands of songs, which are broken up into playlists (mellow, dance, hard, etc.)  Depending on location, I open up a playlist, hit 'shuffle,' and use a fader to bring music up between singers.  For DJ'ing, we use that laptop (which is all the rock/pop/r&b/hiphop) and another that is dedicated to just country. We attach two laptops to board, one fader for each...and an extra CD player for emergencies. Seems like the simpler this whole process is, the better. I can control the EQ on everything from the board.

Am I making this too simple???? There are laptops on Ebay available for very good prices. We are NOT computer geniuses but seem to have a system that works very well for us.  Small footprint, too. One four-foot table for everything for doing things like weddings. We use the same four-foot table for karaoke, too.

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Hi, There are loads of ways.
Partition magic and Paragon ore two of many programs
that will allow you to resize your single hard drive partition.
Once you have reduced the size, you can make another partition
out of the remaining space.
For what you want it wont be of much benefit though.
Seperate partitions for you would be like sepperate folders.
Seperate partitions would be used more for differant
operating systems. I.E. duel boot.

There's never a need to partition HDD in order to organize, it's probably ALOT better to use folders. Most of the time HDD get partition in order to have a "save point" to restore.