proudofmylife Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 Hello, still considered a noob to the forums. I'm having issues with Vista and these drivers. I downloaded SonicStage according to my operating system (Windows Vista Premium). Installed it, the first time I plugged in my MZ-RH1 it had no problems and was able to transfer music. A few days later now when I connect my mz-rh1 it asks me to install the driver. So I thought that was odd, so unplugged it and I downloaded the driver itself and installed it. Restarted and plugged it back in and it still gives me this Locate and install driver crap. Has anyone had any similar issues and if so what can i do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strungup Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 Welcome to VISTA !......... Nice View Huh .System 7 is supposed to fix all that crap .But I digress , or ,....... pregress , no Progress ....... I am on a Mac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobt Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 try downloading Avrin's ultimate, should fix your problemBob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proudofmylife Posted May 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 Thanks for the advice guys. It appears to be a issue with 64-bit. I tried manually installing the .inf driver file through device manager and it says it's not compatible with 64-bit based systems. Is there any way around this whatsoever? Or am I screwed? Has anybody had success with sonicstage reading your discs on 64-bit. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted May 22, 2009 Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 Apparently you gotta use XP compatibility mode, simple as that. I haven't done it but I think that's all it is. My guess is the right driver gets installed when you run SonicStage as an XP app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
proudofmylife Posted May 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 22, 2009 (edited) Thanks for the suggestions. I did try installing Avrin's Ultimate but that didn't do anything, I've jumped to the conclusion it's just a driver issue. I read a few places that SonicStage isn't compatible with Windows Vista 64-bit. So since both my computers are now 64-bit, I searched around and found a great solution. I came across VMWare Viritual Workstation. It allowed me to partition 10gb of my drive and install Windows XP Professional on it so I can run XP and Vista at the same time. Installed SonicStage and the drivers on the XP drive and it works perfectly. Don't mind doing this since it's pretty easy to use. Here's a picture: Edited May 22, 2009 by proudofmylife Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted May 23, 2009 Report Share Posted May 23, 2009 * Moved to Software Discussion Section Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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