ETKA on WinXP question

[Brett Dikeman]

At 10:51 AM -0500 11/3/01, cobram at juno.com wrote:
>FJ40Jim at aol.com writes:
>
>>  Speaking of ETKA, does anybody know why my recently acquired ETKA
>>  CD-ROM
>>  won't run on my new WinXP system?  It wouldn't run on my recently
>
>ETKA evidently does not work under XP yet.  I posted similar question a
>few days ago.  With hard drives so cheap, and computer cases so easily
>accessable, I cloned my drive to a new 40gig ($100), installed XP on the
>new drive and left the old one as is.  When I need to use the ETKA, (or
>my scanner a few other things that don't have drivers yet) I just
>physically plug the cable into whichever drive I'm going to use.
>Not the best solution

There's a small switch assembly, available for under $20, that allows
you to swap master/slave.  Only a reboot is necessary, both drives
remain connected.  It's incredibly elegant.

>BTW: If you hit alt/cntrl/del and WAIT, you'll get a dialog box that lets
>you close the locked up program.  XP hasn't had a catastrophic crash yet
>on my system....and I've tried...

Those debating installing XP should not.  Infoworld compared it to
Win2k, and I believe in their "best case" scenario, the typical
business user would need to spend 50 MORE minutes per day to do the
same work.

http://www.infoworld.com/articles/tc/xml/01/10/29/011029tcwinxp.xml

Yep, that's Progress(TM).

B
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