Re: Problem using USB for medium to large size files
Hi Martin
Excellent news glad all went well
I know what you mean when you say "The tension was palpable, bit like a good TV thriller!"
The first time I flashed a bios. I remmember sitting there willing the PC to start OK
Thank you for all your help. I am still having a problem because the machine keeps crashing when trying to download video files. This is all a bit complicated as I wish to use the Sony PMB Utility that came with my camera. If I use the PMB the video files are saved in the .mt2s format and can be played by several video viewers. If I drill down into the camera and save the video files directly they are saved as .mts file that I can only get the Nero viewer to open.
To side-step this I thought that I could use my eSATA docking station to connect to my laptop, as it also has a USB connector. Then I could save all the files to a SATA HDD, reconnect to my desktop machine and I will have captured my video!
Now, the big problem is that when I try to load the Sony software on my laptop I get the error message: "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log for more details". I tried to find out what this means and it seems to me that there is no clear understanding.
Lots of words about Microsoft Visual C++ redistributable that don't mean a thing to me.
Should I start a new thread?
It might be because my laptop very rarely seems to download a MS Update successfully. I don't want to overstay my welcome on this forum but I now seem to have a catch 22 situation.
Please tell me if I am overstaying my welcome, or if I ought to start a new thread. As I am deviating from the original topic.
My laptop OS is Vista Ultimate, the problem with the updates is that they usually fail. They appear to download OK but then fail. I have tried to understand the MS help but always I seem to end up with a circular argument that eventually tells me to check for upgrades (again!!!), which is what I did in the first place - so hardly any help at all!
Very often when I swich off mt laptop it tells me to wait whilst updates are downloaded and run, this process often takes a long time, but almost invariably when I check I am told the download has failed. I enclose two screen shots, the first shows a stream of failed updates, whilst the second shows that osscasionally the updates are (rarely) successful.
Specifically I notice that the update KB973923 has failed and thaqt this relates to MS Visual C++ 2005 service pack 1, which some pundits seem to think can be responsible for the side-by-side error that I get when I try to run the Sony Picture Utility.
The answer to your Question "Please tell me if I am overstaying my welcome"
Is No.
We are Happy to help for as long it is necessary to get to the bottom of the problem.
But I do think you should start a New thread in the Vista Forum
Because anyone looking for answers to the XP USB File problem will wonder why we are
talking about Vista updates.
My first question on the Updates is
1) Have you tried going Safemode With Networking to do the Updates?
2) Have you tried downloading the Updates from Microsoft and installing them
instead of using the Update tool?
Many thanks for that Jim, I will restart this derived topic in the Vista forum.
To answer your questions:
"1) Have you tried going Safemode With Networking to do the Updates?
2) Have you tried downloading the Updates from Microsoft and installing them
instead of using the Update tool?"
The answer to 1) is no and I will try that now.
The second one is more difficult as I have tried this but seem always to get referred back by the MS help to "Click to open Windows Updates" and I know tha tif I check for udates then nothing significant happens, except that if I click "View update history then" I just get the list of failures. All pretty unhelpful really.
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