microstudio doesn't see any drives, "yes" or "no"

[mindonstrike]

Newly installed microstudio 2.4 will not detect any drives, when I click detect drives I do not get a yes or no for any drives just a blank screen.

I'm using a sony 140E which always worked well with ms2312 ,but I see in the 2.4 manual my drive is not listed even though it is on the website.

I'm using XPpro on a p3 sony vaio. Can somebody point me in the direction to get microstudio up and running again?
Thanks.
Sam

[MTUSUPPORT]

Try unpgrading your ASPI drivers. This should be the problem. Try these solutions first, do both #1 and #2 as stated in this post: http://forum.mtu.com/showthread.php?threadid=493

If that doesn't work, then try this post as stated by a client: http://forum.mtu.com/showthread.php?threadid=2635

[mindonstrike]

#1 My aspint.dll was 1.16 but I tried the fix anyway (because #2 didn't work ). Install could not find some path while searching for aspidrivers.msi . Doing a search myself I couldn't find it either.

I tried #2 , In dos, install.bat was not a recognized command so I typed the file name in manually and it extracted 25 files from a zip file, aspichk showed what it was supposed to show - ultimately it had no effect either. any other thoughts?

Sam

[Flipeoke]

Have you tried the second link that MTUSUPPORT posted?

Supposedly if you have ever used a Nero product, you may have to use the ASPI drivers they supply...that post tells you what you need to do and also contains the link to the ASPI drivers.

Hope it helps...
Flip

[mindonstrike]

I've never used a nero product.
I'm trying to install microstudio onto freshly formatted drives with XPpro

My old microstudio worked great with ME until the OS crashed one day and never recovered.

If worse comes to worse I suppose I can reinstall ME on one of my drives so I can use microstudio, but I'm hoping it won't come to that.

It's got to be something simple, I have a competitors demo product on here and it works fine just as it did before I changed OS's

Sam

[MTUSUPPORT]

Mindonstrike,
Also, make sure under Microstudio to click on the Drives Menu, ASPI drivers. Make sure this is set to USE the MTU installed driver. If you have it set to USE the Default driver, and don't have the Nero or Adaptec drivers installed, then you will not show any drives in the system. Double check this and let us know what you find.

It sounds like in the post above that you didn't install the Adaptec drivers. Please retry the instructions on this. It sounds as if when you say you got 25 files into a folder, this is when you extracted the files. As explained in the post about how to do this, you want to extract these files into a folder such as c:\aspi or something simple as that. This is because you will then have to go through the command prompt to get to this folder, then type in the install.bat xp32 for it to actually install the files.

You can also open the Readme.txt in this folder, from adaptec which will also give you the instructions.

[mindonstrike]

Okay I confused unzipping with installing but took care of that.

Aspi install verification shows 4.71.2 for the 2 files mentioned. although dated aug 7, several days before installing microstudio.

I tried fix #1 again but still get error msg about not finding specified path. (should I create a path it can find?).

I tried the nero fix but the readme txt says it's for 95/98 and it wants me to copy a file to a folder that doesn't exist (should I have created one?).

After everything I've tried I i've done the drive menu thing, trying it both ways and rebooting for each.

Any other ideas?
Thanks.
Sam