Akai S1000 / S1100 samplers

AHA!!!! I'm xp pro on the PC so that will explain a few things. I do
have an old PC with 98 on it somwhere i'll blow off the cob webs and
give it a go :-) (having said that its 1/4 the age of my sampler LOL)

Many thanks for your help all!

--- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "oberheim1k"
<robertgs@...> wrote:
>
> It's the Windows operating system. I could only get it to work by
using a friends PC with 
> Windows 98 on it. Anything above that throws up error messages.
> 
> Hope that helps
> 
> :-)
> 
> --- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "pewe" <ha-pewe@> wrote:
> >
> > >>>
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "scorchitc" <scorchitc@>
> > To: <akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 12:59 PM
> > Subject: [akaiS1000S1100Samplers] Re: Problems creating s1100 disk
more
> > detail;
> > 
> > 
> > > --- In akaiS1000S1100Samplers@yahoogroups.com, "scorchitc"
> > > <scorchitc@> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I've been trying to create an os disk for s1100 with
s11k-430exe on my
> > > > PC but i keep getting the message
> > > >
> > > > 'an application has attempted to directly access the hard
disk, which
> > > > cannot be supported. this may cause the application to function
> > > > incorrectly. chose close to terminate the application'
> > > >
> > > > Has anybody else had this? Am I doing something very wrong?
> > > >
> > > O.K. I've got around this (I think) by hitting the ignore button
when
> > > message pops up, the program then writes to the floppy but I
don't get
> > > the prompt to type my floppy type as mentioned in the readme, I put
> > > the floppy back in the sampler and I get 'Unformatted floopy'
message
> > > and nothing loads when I go ahead and try to load OS in disk
menu anyway.
> > >
> > > Anybody out there still selling proms? this floppy OS stuff is
growing
> > > tiresome already, ho hum.
> > 
> > Hi !
> > 
> > Do you have Win XP on your PC ?
> > Creating a OS floppy for S-1100 worked here w/ s11k-430exe, - but
under
> > Win98SE !!!
> > I used vbrun300 Win 98 disk writer to write an OS disk on PC, -
s11k-430 exe
> > is only the OS for the S-1100 itself.
> > I mail you everything privately...
> > 
> > PeWe
> >
>