Carol
Just an idea, but have you try
starting in SAFE MODE, when the system boot I believe you press F8 or esc.
It would prompt window to go in SAFE MODE , which I believe can give you access
to Basic DOS, that is the way Norton Ghost need to start to make mirror
copy.
Get back to me if you don't have any
success, I will investigated at the begining of bnext
year.
But I operate with Win 2000 and I
have access to DOS prompt and I am able to get Giebler working and also DVK
Cheers
Jimmy
----- Original Message -----From: Carol BeigelSent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 11:00 AMSubject: [disklavier] Windows XP and DisklaviersI 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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