Sonic Stage won't recognise HI-MD Discs

[Purplehayes]

I have a MZ-NHF800 which I bought over the net from a store in Canada a few months before hi-md's hit the UK market. It came with Sonic Stage 2.0 which I was using very happily on my computer at work.

My computer was upgraded, the new one was installed with windows xp professional. I re-installed SS 2.0 only to find that it would no longer recognise my 1gb disc and I then discovered that it would not recognise any of the normal 80 minute discs that I had formatted to hi-md.

Any normal net md disc using sp, lp2 or lp4 is recognised in the usual way but trying to use SS to format one of these discs to hi-md causes SS to chunter to itself for a moment and then do nothing.

I have since downloaded SS 3.1 but it is behaving in exactly the same way.

I am a big fan and an apostle of MD as a format and I really miss my single disc with 40 or so albums on it - but to tell you the truth I am now seriously considering giving up and joining the iPod herd!

Can anyone give me any help to get it working before it's too late?

[The Low Volta]

hi Purplehayes,

welcome to MDCF...

best thing to try is a clean install of the latest SS version (3.2)... just follow the uninstall instructions in this thread and install a 3.2 from here

if stuff still isn't working... please post again (including full specs as explained in the rules)...as we all will try to keep you as a part of the MD-club... just say no to the ipuddle

btw: you have xp-pro, but have you got SP2? it is necessary for SS to run properly...

hope the clean install works!