New computer is running XP with service pack 3, I suspect the old drive was SP2 or less (installed in 2005 and never upgraded since it's not on the internet).
I didn't have an appropriate disk Monday, won't be back at that job until tomorrow, when I will take a DVD-RAM disk or a thumb drive in and see, but I've never had any trouble at all moving Windows files around with a Mac. The old drive is an IDE in a five or so year old DVD drive enclosure, should be completely transparent (no drivers required). I could be wrong, however. Normally, a USB enclosure just appears as a standard read/write USB device. Firewire is more complicated, as I have a Sony IDE to Firewire DVD external box that will ONLY work with the original CDR drive. Big bummer. I shall hack about Thursday and see where I get. I will be attempting to make block level clones of the drives on all our instrument computers in the near future so that if one bites the dust I can install a new drive (or box and drive) and just copy over the system disk intact. This avoids having to get a key disk for software, rebuilding all the instrument methods, and so forth. Peter -----Original Message----- >From: Ed Booher <edboo...@gmail.com> >Sent: May 11, 2011 8:04 AM >To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >Subject: Re: [MBZ] Any Windows experts out there? > >On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:59 AM, Peter Frederick <psf...@earthlink.net>wrote: > >> I pulled the driver from the old computer when I got back from vacation, >> and stuffed it into my USB external enclosure, to find that the new computer >> reports it as unformated! It appears as a normal NT32 driver on my TiBook >> using the same adapter, so I'm going to copy the relevant files off to a >> DVD-RAM disk later in the week and hopefully move them onto the new machine. >> >> My question is what in the ..... causes the new computer to not recognized >> a perfectly good drive? Is there something with Windows 7, downgraded or >> not to XP, or is it just a pile of excrement? >> > >To answer your first question, yes Windows is excrement. With that out of >the way there isn't enough information to really answer the problem. Is the >drive in the USB casing IDE or SATA? Did it have DriveLock / Bit Locker >installed? Are you actually able to copy files from the drive on the Mac? >Which service pack is the "new" XP running, which was the "old"? > >Because when it comes to Windows, more often than not, one single driver >mis-match causes all kinds of hell. It could be that the USB driver on the >new machine is broken and needs reinstalled, have you tried any other USB >drives on the new system? If the "old" system was a "newer" service pack, >then it might be as simple as letting the new machine download standard >updates from Microsoft.com. (And while this sounds weird, I still have an XP >SP 1 disk that I sometimes use to install from when I can't find the newer >one, so it could be the tech that did the install for you didn't make sure >it was the newest service pack / patching revision) > >Also, some USB enclosures, themselves, need a driver. Had one some time ago >that had some kind of auto backup button on it. Had a driver for the button. >The drive wouldn't work without it's driver because of the stupid button. >Which made it useless for picking up and moving to other workstations as a >quick means of file transfer. I think most newer ones have gotten smarter >about this, but you never know. > >-- >"Das beste oder nichts." - *Gottlieb Daimler* >_______________________________________ >http://www.okiebenz.com >For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > >To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
