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Thx for that, I do recall that but @ the time had neither the time (or perhaps the patience) to try to find it again since the # of times i've had to do a system restore are typically far and few between so basically I sucked it up and did it the old fashioned way (cust's on a contract regardless). Maybe next time (if I remember @ the time) I've try the new method again! Thanks again! Oh yeah, does it work with windows 7? I've long since stopped using windows xp.
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Hmmmm....I would assume it would work with windows 7 32 bit...(64 bit may not work, it installs a 32 bit driver)...though truth be told, I haven't used it in some time. I use a netbook for work these days, and those do not sport a parallel port. This was pretty much the reason I started using imaging software...I can use a universal HDD adaptor (it can handle IDE PATA and SATA in both 2.5 and 3.5 drive sizes) that plugs in to the USB...
Depending on the power of your laptop/workstation, you might be able to run a virtual XP desktop and use this software to do the deed that way. MS provides this free for pro and ultimate versions of 7.
Another alternative is to use one of the many WinPE type CDs out there, though I cannot say if you would be able to install the PP software within such an environment. Or a bootable thumb drive with Win98 DOS, and the software unpacked on that drive, along with a suitable path statement in autoexec.bat to point to it when you call the file. Since it is a DOS based program, there is no reason it would not work in a native DOS environment.
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Again thx, but all things considered and the fact that I might "maybe" have 3 live x3e's left.. not sure if it's worth the w98 bother etc, my laptop has a parallel and serial port so thats not an issue. For the number of times (to date - 2) that it's happened.. I think I can stick it out if the fast driver doesn't work!
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Ya, I agree. We are in a similar situation. In fact, I think we only have two of those X3e boxes out in the field. We've written off a couple others and use those as spares. If one in the field goes south, we just take the one in the shop and do a swap of the whole fiery. A few minutes to program the user settings and we are done.
By the by, it is also advantageous to create images of newer series fiery's. I have versions 1,2 and 3 for the IC 303/305, versions 1 and 2 for the IC 408 and so forth on my laptop. As fast as it may be doing a network port system restore on the IC 408, or the DVDROM on an IC 303 it takes me roughly a half hour to install system, and that includes popping the cover on the machine and ponying up my USB adapter to it. The alternative usually an hour and some before you can have a running OS. The images were also pre-patched before I created them, so a lot of time is saved when doing any new updates. I have yet to deal with any of the office machine fierys found on the C451 series and so forth. But eventually I will have to do those and I will create new images for those machines. In the print shops, they appreciate the significantly reduced downtime.
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Originally Posted by Stirton.M
This guy really does incredible things !!!!!
Fiery system loads are pretty straight forward it's the time that's a killer. If the drive hasn't self destructed you can create a drive mirror and make an exact dupe. I have done this when I started to see the tell, tell signs. Having a backup is always good. System booting message is never good.
We're in a similar situation with the CF2002/K8020/etc machines (trying to eliminate them from the field for printing/scanning purposes.) They just aren't very stable.
As stirton said, acronis works great. I tried ghost and had mixed results.
I'm in the same situation - I have a netbook for all of my field work and of course they stopped adding parallel ports to laptops a while back, and a netbook is no exception. We tried using a usb to parallel converter cable but it is very shoddy. I believe the issue is that the device is not "on" early enough to start sending the boot.efi file over. This forced us to stop being lazy and start creating and carrying the images around. Good stuff.
Any chance I could buy one of those from you? Since software is preloaded, do I just have to pop it in?
I've had a Minolta tech working on this stupid thing for what seems like 2 weeks now, hours of trying to reload software. After 2 days of "reloading" he finally admitted yesterday my harddrive is most likely shot. I told him that when he showed up!
The tech will still need to load the fiery software onto the hard drive after you purchase it. You can pick up a variety of hard drives that will work for less than 80 dollars online. I'm not sure what type of maintenance agreement you are on with the company you are with.. We normally include that in our maintenance package.
I'm not on an maintenance agreement. Do I just google CF2002 fiery harddrive? Not sure what I would look for to get the right one. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
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