catastroophic protools failure at "Creating SDS Objects

[mfdu]

ok.

windoze XP, SP2. protools LE 7.1 cs10. protools fires up, and makes it past loading plugins. at "creating SDS objects" it fails, and the program closes.

everything fell apart when i added a partition to the system drive.

yes, i backed everything up before i added the partition. but the ghost image will not reinstall.

i've done everything i can, apart from re-formatting the system drive and starting from scratch. i guess that's next. i've already lost the weekend to this. i've got a band coming in next weekend, so obviously it's a problem for me.

it's the first failure i've ever had since running v.5 x on windows 98!!!!!

anyone got any advice? any ideas on these darn SDS objects? (the digi knowldge base doesn't help)

regards,
chris
mfdu

[jkhuri44]

gday chris,

i go to uni at Proschool (UTS)..

i can ask someone there tomoro...if no one answers by tonite...

all the best,

Jamil.

[Jonathan Kristian]

Chris,

I had a similar problem a while back where Protools was crashing on the load screen.
I fixed this by deleting all the Protools/DAE/Digidesign preference files from my system beacause from what i could tell they had become corrupted somehow. So by deleting them Protools will be forced to create new and hopefully uncorrupt ones. The only draw back is that you will loose your prefs (buffer settings, I/O, etc...).

I am running on OSX so im not sure where XP stores these but im guessing you could try doing a file search.

I really dont know if this is going to help or not but its all i can think of.

Good luck!

[jkhuri44]

stupid go at answering this problem...you've probably already tried this, but here goes..

but PT might be having problems because of its work disk (now being partitioned)...you might need to delete PT, and all associated PT files...and do a complete reinstall....


unless u can try change your workdisk prefs without opening PT??


-jamil.

[mfdu]

thanks all. i had tried everything. removing preference files and everything.

so last night i reformatted the system drive, reinstalled windoze and protools, and she all works now.

a nice clean install isn't the worst thing that can happen!

chris
mfdu

[TimS]

thanks all. i had tried everything. removing preference files and everything.

so last night i reformatted the system drive, reinstalled windoze and protools, and she all works now.

a nice clean install isn't the worst thing that can happen!

chris
mfdu

I just upgraded from PT6.9 to 7.3 - thought of doing a general install over 6.9 but thought the better and went with a totally new fresh install.
Clears out all the crap!!
Works flawlessly..
TimS..

[Henry]

I read about this problem over a year ago I think. Uninstall all your Waves Plugins and it should boot up fine.

[mfdu]

aah but i don't have any waves plugins.

it's a very raw system. on mixdown i rely on my console eq and my outboard compression etc.

the rebuild gave me a chance to really fulfil this ideal of mine, and the computer is running probably 40% better and even 4-5 degrees cooler (after i cleaned all the dust out of the cooling fins and filters)

i'm favouring the path of pclinux running off a 1GB USB key, so the protools installation is completely seperate to any internet action that goes down.
it'll also be nice on our aging laptop, as we'll get much better performance on the old clapper.

definately, everything went arwy when i partitioned the system drive.

chris
mfdu