Windows XP shuts down while recording vinyl [SOLVED]

Chris Hosier · Post by **Chris Hosier** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 3:35 pm

XP version of Audacity. After about 2/3 minutes of recording Windows XP closes unexpectedly. Should there be a Windows update or something.
Chris Hosier

Post by **kozikowski** » Wed Nov 23, 2011 4:04 pm

I think there should be an inspection of your hard drive. Audio production fills up your drive in a hurry. Once the room on the drive shrinks to a certain amount, there isn't enough to run Audacity or Windows.

-- Defrag
-- Right Click Start > Explore > Right Click Local Drive C: > Properties (Used, Remaining)
-- Tools > Error Checking & Defragmentation

You should maintain at least 10% free space and more is better. If your drive is up at 99% full, you need to shovel out some work or back it up and make room.

Koz

Gale Andrews · Post by **Gale Andrews** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 1:46 am

While it is sensible to check drive space and disk fragmentation it does not usually cause blue screen Windows crashes. Critically low memory might, but still not very likely. Bad drivers are the usual cause. Please read:
http://forum.audacityteam.org/viewtopic ... 53#p162997

Gale

Chris Hosier · Post by **Chris Hosier** » Thu Nov 24, 2011 2:48 pm

Hi

I ran a defrag, have 45% space and loaded the 1.3 Beta Audacity and all is fine.

Mny thanks for the input

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