[IainJohnstonMember]

Ian, I’m going to ask if you had the crashed X-HDD setup with partitions, or just simply as a default “one drive”.

Reason is, I was intending to setup my new gear fairly soon, with several partitions on each of the 2 “parallel” X-HDDs that would be “mirrors” of a similar planned structure on the new PC (we all know how long it can take to “defrag” etc and otherwise do routine “housekeeping maintenance” with whopping big WAV files on a single-partition entire HDD even in pre-Terabyte era never mind with big-capacity single-partition un-“divided” drives).

PS – David’s right there – Seagate were one of the earliest and (still are) most respected manufacturers of reliable hard drives – I’ve seen them survive in “robust” industrial environments that would take out these wee “laptop”-form factor things.

[IanMemberAuthor]

Gents,
I am far from technical when it comes to these things. I will give you the facts and let you gents who probably know far mor about these things pick the meat from the bones.

I bought a Seagate 500GB X-HDD that simply plugs into the PC via a usb port.
At the time of buying it I checked the properties and it was indeed 500GB.
I then transferred files over to the X-HDD and that was 35GB worth. It then showed 35GB used and 465GB free.
Then when the pc crashed it crashed completely. I couldn’t even turn it on. Never mind I thought, all my files are replicated on the X-HDD. When I plugged it into my laptop and tried to recover them with a recovery tool, I think they were there still but somehow partitioned off. I did manage to recover them but as I said earlier, they renamed themselves files 1 to 5798 with all properties lost.
If I look at the properties of the X-HDD now it shows total capacity 500GB but free space 465GB. I am guessing the initial 35GB of files that I copied onto the X-HDD are still there in the original folders and are taking up 35GB as when first copied over. Only thing is that cannot see them. As I said earlier, I think I must have created a partition on the X-HDD when I recovered them. Any ideas as to how to unpartition the X-HDD?
If I can do that I should find everything there as originlly saved.
I hope I didn’t mis-lead anyone when I said I had lost them, but in a sense I have.

[IainJohnstonMember]

“I am guessing the initial 35GB …cannot see them. As I said earlier, I think I must have created a partition on the X-HDD when I recovered them”

Something similar happened couple of years ago to my daughter’s uni laptop – a 5Gig partition “vanished” but contents of it were shown as still subtracting from the total capacity. Got it all back eventually, but I’m wracking my brains to remember what I did to achieve it! (Wasn’t a “day-to-day” ordinary file recovery task I do remember!)

Some partition management programs such as Partition Expert can let you “recover” missing partitions’ contents when changing the structure, but I would be loath to give any direct advice here as I’m really only qualified (MCP ITSSP etc) on pre-Vista-level and I’d hate to suggest trying something that might risk making it worse. Also, none of the “conventional” lost-data software I have here is Vista/W7 compatible.

So – over to the “whizz kids” (i.e. anyone under 40!!!)

[IanMemberAuthor]

I’m actually running XP here

[IanMemberAuthor]

Tommy Vance starting “Rock On” circa 1983 as Richard Skinner was ill.
Tommy Vance Rock on start by ian.arnold

[IanMemberAuthor]

Start Of Bruno Brookes early show, July 1984
Bruno Brookes early show start 1984 by ian.arnold

[IanMemberAuthor]

A 4 minute aircheck in medium wave of Steve Wright doing the breakfast show circa 1982 for Mike Read.
What can anyone tell me about the jingle at 3:47?
Steve Wright breakfast show 1982 MW by ian.arnold

[IanMemberAuthor]

A Thunderbirds style advert for Lenny Henry.
Lenny Henry Advert by ian.arnold

[IanMemberAuthor]

I know we probably all have this but it’s a classic.
Summer radio on the Peter Powell show jingle (Chris Rainbow)
Summer radio on the Peter Powell show by ian.arnold

[Barras]

A 4 minute aircheck in medium wave of Steve Wright doing the breakfast show circa 1982 for Mike Read.
What can anyone tell me about the jingle at 3:47?
Steve Wright breakfast show 1982 MW by ian.arnold

Ian,

the acapella jingle @ 3:47 “The Breakfast Show” is sung by Adian Baker. As you can hear, it`s Adrian`s voice singing and it`s multi-tracked several times to give a full acapella, vocal sound. Mark Wesley did a similar thing for a set of jingles @ Radio Luxembourg in the 1980s.

I posted some Adrian Baker acapella jingles for Noel Edmonds previously and here they are again in case you didn`t hear them, I love this “different” jingle sound and thought it worked well on Radio One and Luxembourg…

Adrian Baker – Noel Edmonds by Barras

Adrian Baker recorded a whole bunch of acapella jingles for several jocks @ Radio One and it`s another elusive British package of jingles, unfortunately, I heard on the grapevine that the Radio One copy of Adrian Baker`s jingles ended up in that frightening “jingle skip” (American translation – “jingle dumpster”).

There are a few ramblings on Jinglemad about Adrian Baker and I found this thread, here`s the link…

http://jinglemad.com/index.php?p=/discussion/7880/adrian-baker-acapellas

[IanMemberAuthor]

Many thanks David

[bland75Member]

Thanks for all the audio posted here – all good stuff.

I’ve been listening to some R1 airchecks from 1990/91 recently including this intro from Steve Wright – does anybody know who did the sax intro link before going into the jingle that is now Hyperilnk Cut#6?

Cheers, Paul

http://www.4shared.com/mp3/Q91ys5P-/SW_Sax_Intro.html

[RobinBlamires]

That’s one of the instrumental stings from the KPM Power Shot series.

[deedahMember]

All this talk of Radio 1 reminds me of a couple of questions on the ’80s stuff…

I’ve never heard another version of “Radio 1, the big one” – what package was this from?

Also, was the sung news jingle custom for Radio 1? Any other versions?

Ta

[gameswizardMember]

I’ve never heard another version of “Radio 1, the big one” – what package was this from?

The only other version I’ve heard of that particular jingle was when it was resung “Sunday to Thursday, Steve Wright” – also for Radio 1.

[deedahMember]

You’re right, I’d forgotten that one! Must’ve been used on other stations though?

[Barras]

All this talk of Radio 1 reminds me of a couple of questions on the ’80s stuff…

I’ve never heard another version of “Radio 1, the big one” – what package was this from?
Ta

If it`s this “Big One/Sunday to Thursday” jingle, it`s from JAM`s Music Now, possibly sung for WLUM too…

BIG ONE-SUNDAY TO THURSDAY by DavidBarras

[deedahMember]

Thanks Barras, that’s the one – hadn’t spotted it on Music Now.

Any ideas on the ’80s news jingle? Was that custom for Radio 1?

[Barras]

No problem deedah…

About this “80`s news Jingle” – any chance you could post an off-air example or give a description of it ?

[deedahMember]

You know the one, “Radio 1… news…”? Not heard it sung for anyone else.

[RobinBlamires]

Another one for Jon himself to provide the story…

[Barras]

You know the one, “Radio 1… news…”? Not heard it sung for anyone else.

Is it this news jingle below ?

If it is, I`ve never heard it sung for any other station…

JAM RADIO 1 NEWS (1976) by DavidBarras

[gameswizardMember]

Is it this news jingle below ?

I preferred the later version of that jingle (from the early 80’s).

I cant imagine that jingle being sung for anything else other than a news ID.

[IainJohnstonMember]

I always thought that the original Radio 1 JAM news cut was perhaps “influenced” by the the much-earlier P-T “WWDC” Odyssey-70 one that R1 used circa 1969. (I’ve posted that audio somewhere on JM before…can’t find my link…)

Perhaps the Beeb said “we’ve had this one (P-T) before, can you do something like that but do it MUCH better?” Maybe Jon himself could tell the “background history” on that one?

The P-T effort was a very insipid thing – but that JAM one really “went to town” on its production values and sheer impact on-air. Its probably one of if not THE most striking news intros ever heard on any kind of music station anywhere, and its re-incarnations lasted over 15 years, as well as all the variants/mixes. A lot of today’s “news-ins” are very wishy-washy by comparison (especially with those ubiquitous but dull “synth hit” supposed “sonic logo” notes).

[deedahMember]

Yep Barras, thanks, that’s the one. I’m with gameswizard and prefer the early ’80s version.

I’d love to know the background on the Radio 1 news jingle if Jon’s around…

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