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Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: having trouble with the giebler program

2004-03-10 by Frank Crawford

Taping the hole is a setup for disaster........From experience

> From: homebythe_sea <homebythe_sea@...>
> Reply-To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 21:22:24 +0000
> To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Re: having trouble with the giebler program
> 
> The laptop is running windows 95.  It is very picky about what disks
> it will format. I have about 15 dsdd disks and it only formatted one
> or two.  Can I use DS HD disks? I think if i tape the notch (the one
> opposite the write protect tab) they will be read as dsdd disks.
> 
> On the one or two disks i "formatted", i tried to copy files and it
> didnt work. Please give me step by step instructions for the
> transfer as i have followed whats on the documentation file but it
> doesnt seem to work.
> 
> Thanks for your help !!!
> 
> --- In Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com, "David A. Pope"
> <ensoniqdap65@s...> wrote:
>> What OS is running on the laptop?  It MUST be an OS that
> has "DOS" Win98
>> ver. 2 or OLDER, Win98, Win95, etc.  Will not work with WinME,
> Win2000 or
>> WinNT or, as you have found out WinXP...
>> 
>> David
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: homebythe_sea [mailto:aotoe@h...]
>> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 12:02 AM
>> To: Ensoniq-VFX-SD@yahoogroups.com
>> Subject: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] having trouble with the giebler program
>> 
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I have both a VFX-SD and a SD-1.  I have had them a long time and
>> just got back into playing again.
>> 
>> I have been out of the loop for a while, and found some sites
> that
>> have the updated Operating systems, and the Giebler transfer
> utility.
>> 
>> Problem is, I have yet to make any of it work.
>> 
>> I can download the files, and the transfer program but it doesnt
>> work for me. I first did it on my pc which is running windows XP,
>> but quickly found out that the transfer program will not work
> with
>> XP.
>> 
>> I then tried moving it via diskette to my older laptop, but it
> still
>> doesnt work.
>> 
>> Can someone help me figure this out?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Rich
>> 
>> homebythe_sea@y...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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