Disklavier

Make up some bootable floppies from a win 98 machine and put a copy of
dkvcopy, format, and/or other DOS only programs on the floppy.  Pure DOS
can't read the NTFS file system that 2000 and XP default to.  You won't
be able to read the hard drive after booting, until you reboot XP.
Since you use these things infrequently, it is no big deal.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Carol Beigel [mailto:carolrpt@...] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 11:00 AM
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [disklavier] Windows XP and Disklaviers

 

I just tried out a new Compaq Presario 900usb laptop runing Windows XP
Home. 
  Nothing DOS-based (Giebler or dkvcopy) worked.  I used the Command
Prompt 
to get into a DOS window.  If there is any other way to get to real DOS,

please let me know as I did not see an option to restart the computer in

MS-DOS mode. I tried formating a boot disk with DOS, on this laptop, but
it 
would never let me into Drive C.  XP Home only had the option to format
a 
high density disk.

The Giebler utilities did not see a Yamaha diskette, and would only
format a 
disk if it had already been formatted in the DKV.  However it did see
the 
files on a disk I had copied using the dkvcopy on another computer.

dkvcopy did not work.  It did not see a Yamaha diskette.  This laptop
runing 
XP Home saw no disk that had nothing written on the first sector.

That's all the bad news.  My family tells me there is some good news.  
Adapters are made for serial to usb cables.  So you could get an adapter
for 
the CBX cable if your laptop had no serial port.

Also, according to the Microsoft website, you can set up a computer with

Windows XP with a dual boot to an older version of Windows.  I do not
know 
if this will work on a laptop.

It seems some folks have been able to get Microsoft 2000, which is NT
based, 
to work and some have not.  Has anyone had the Giebler or dkvcopy work
on a 
laptop runing Windows 2000?  For the Dell laptop owners, I once saw one
with 
a cable that connected the floppy drive out the back while the CD drive
was 
in the bay.

I still think keeping an old copy of Windows 3.1/95/98 and an old laptop
is 
still the least frustrating way to interface a computer with the DKV!


Carol Beigel
crbrpt@...




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