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Originally posted by MWSAH:Gerard, you once bought the Sennheiser CX400 II? My CX300 are broke, almost dead left channel after two years. Looked for a new brand (Etymotic, Denon etc.) but I end up with Sennheiser again.

Originally posted by jofice:Best (free) program to convert FLAC to ALAC and/or mp3?

Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]

dBpoweramp is just brilliant. To get ALAC you need to convert flac to wav then you can use itunes to convert the wav to alac.

Originally posted by Risto:there is an ALAC plugin for dbpoweramp

Originally posted by germcevoy:[..]

dBpoweramp is just brilliant. To get ALAC you need to convert flac to wav then you can use itunes to convert the wav to alac.

Originally posted by germcevoy:New computer. Have a question. I have 2TB of storage divided up into :

C: 500GB

D : 1TB

E : 500GB

What I want to know is can I isolate one of these from Windows to use purely as a back up. IE, if I have a crash I can still retrieve everything from one of the other drives? Ideally i'll just load everything onto C and then copy it in D or E so in the event of a crash I lose C i'll still have everything on one of the other drives.

So in simple terms, what drive should I use for backup?

Originally posted by LikeASong:The usual thing is using the biggest partition (in your case, the 1TB one) for back-up -ing the info, and the other(s) for daily use. I can't see the point in three partitions though, maybe someone can give your further details. But I'd use the 1TB as possible back-up drive.

Originally posted by iTim:[..]

If you're running Windows (as far as I know) any partition will be suitable since in the event of C: being wiped, the partitions don't get touched. I use my D: partition for backup and have re-installed Windows a few times (not due to a system crash though) and each time all my data on D: has been left intact.

Ideally, go for the largest since it'd back the most up.