hi folks, i'd like to create a bare bones install for my recording studio. winxp sp2. no internet, no windows sound, no indexing, minimum system ram usage, no restore, etc. i searched for "digital audio workstation"and "DAW"but didn't find anything. has anyone done this? i'd take any advice you have to offer. i'll be running nuendo 3 with several native instruments samplers. the i/o is a presonus firestudio tube (firewire). i'll need usb 2.0 support for an external hd. i've partitioned my c: drive into 2 partitions. one has vista on it, and i'd like to make that partition invisible when i boot to XP (on the other partition). hardware: gigabyte ep35-ds4 motherboard intel quad 6600 2 G ocz ram radeon hd-3450 vid card (which i'd like to keep from using system ram) any help GREATLY appreciated! peter
