Very old ebook and windows 7

[Garm Bel Iblis]

I have a very old RCA Ebook that is no longer in production. Recently bought a new PC windows 7 64 bit- the damn book will not work with it. It beep beeps at me andtells me that it cannot install the device, even using the disc it cannot load the driver. Is this indicative of windows 7? It worked just fine on vista.

I have a workaround, and that is the book takes a very old Smart Media card, kinda big, verrrry thin....

Does anyone have any ideas?

 

[sojourner]

Donate to a museum and buy a new one?

 

[RobertVA]

Better than the Sony reader I have from many years ago. Instead of a memory card/stick the old Sony reader uses optical dicks in a little floppy disk size carrier. It's been years since I tried taking one of the disks out of the carrier to see if the formatting has any characteristics a PC would recognize.

The tiny back lit monochrome display goes through the charge of thee AA bateries it's powered by too.

Reminder: My reader is much older than the models that are currently on the market. It looks a lot like a Next Generation Tricorder, although it has a darker gray coating that feels like thin rubber.

 

[Trekker4747]

Donate to a museum and buy a new one?

This. You can't expect technology to support decade old devices.

 

[Marc]

I have a very old RCA Ebook that is no longer in production. Recently bought a new PC windows 7 64 bit- the damn book will not work with it. It beep beeps at me andtells me that it cannot install the device, even using the disc it cannot load the driver. Is this indicative of windows 7? It worked just fine on vista.

I have a workaround, and that is the book takes a very old Smart Media card, kinda big, verrrry thin....

Does anyone have any ideas?

Smartcards are pretty standard devices so you chould be able to get a 6 in 1 media reader device (they connect via USB and each slot shows up as a different drive letter). Providing it's just a FAT/FAT32 file system you should be able to copy and past the files.

Of course getting the files in the format needed to be read by the software could be a bit harder.

 

[Mr. B]

Was your Vista installation 64 bit? Expecting such ancient drivers to work on Win7 64 is asking a lot.

You might try running the installer in "compatibility mode" though... worth a shot.

 

[Garm Bel Iblis]

I have a very old RCA Ebook that is no longer in production. Recently bought a new PC windows 7 64 bit- the damn book will not work with it. It beep beeps at me andtells me that it cannot install the device, even using the disc it cannot load the driver. Is this indicative of windows 7? It worked just fine on vista.

I have a workaround, and that is the book takes a very old Smart Media card, kinda big, verrrry thin....

Does anyone have any ideas?

Smartcards are pretty standard devices so you chould be able to get a 6 in 1 media reader device (they connect via USB and each slot shows up as a different drive letter). Providing it's just a FAT/FAT32 file system you should be able to copy and past the files.

Of course getting the files in the format needed to be read by the software could be a bit harder.

any idea where i can buy those old smart cards? everything I've read says they're no longer in production

 

[Marc]

I have a very old RCA Ebook that is no longer in production. Recently bought a new PC windows 7 64 bit- the damn book will not work with it. It beep beeps at me andtells me that it cannot install the device, even using the disc it cannot load the driver. Is this indicative of windows 7? It worked just fine on vista.

I have a workaround, and that is the book takes a very old Smart Media card, kinda big, verrrry thin....

Does anyone have any ideas?

Smartcards are pretty standard devices so you chould be able to get a 6 in 1 media reader device (they connect via USB and each slot shows up as a different drive letter). Providing it's just a FAT/FAT32 file system you should be able to copy and past the files.

Of course getting the files in the format needed to be read by the software could be a bit harder.

any idea where i can buy those old smart cards? everything I've read says they're no longer in production

What is the actual make/model of the card it's self?

 

[Garm Bel Iblis]

Smartcards are pretty standard devices so you chould be able to get a 6 in 1 media reader device (they connect via USB and each slot shows up as a different drive letter). Providing it's just a FAT/FAT32 file system you should be able to copy and past the files.

Of course getting the files in the format needed to be read by the software could be a bit harder.

any idea where i can buy those old smart cards? everything I've read says they're no longer in production

What is the actual make/model of the card it's self?

no idea, didnt come with one, just an empty slot for one

 

[Marc]

any idea where i can buy those old smart cards? everything I've read says they're no longer in production

What is the actual make/model of the card it's self?

no idea, didnt come with one, just an empty slot for one

Next step

Do you have the Model number?

I've found two RCA Ebook reads - the EB1100 which uses and MMC and the 1200 which uses Compact Flash.

Another option - which version of Windows 7 do you? I think it' s Business and Ultimate that will allow you to run a Windows XP VM which you could use to the drive the Ebook reader.

Also was your version of Vista 32 or 64bit?

Driver support in 7 was pretty much the same as Vista so it works in Vista it should work the later program. Only thing I can think of the move from a 32bit to 64bit O/S.

 

[Garm Bel Iblis]

What is the actual make/model of the card it's self?

no idea, didnt come with one, just an empty slot for one

Next step

Do you have the Model number?

I've found two RCA Ebook reads - the EB1100 which uses and MMC and the 1200 which uses Compact Flash.

Another option - which version of Windows 7 do you? I think it' s Business and Ultimate that will allow you to run a Windows XP VM which you could use to the drive the Ebook reader.

Also was your version of Vista 32 or 64bit?

Driver support in 7 was pretty much the same as Vista so it works in Vista it should work the later program. Only thing I can think of the move from a 32bit to 64bit O/S.

Model # reb11

home version of windows 7, 64 bit, vista was 32

 

[Deks]

It's probably because the Win 7 is 64 bit.
Your ebook very likely doesn't have a x64 compatible CPU which is why an x64 OS refuses to work.

What you could do however is modify the Win 7 DVD so the installation screen shows ALL Win 7 install options (all editions in 32bit and 64bit ... and then you pick the 32 bit version of the edition your key is for).

Or you can download a 32bit Win 7 (your edition -> Home Premium, Pro, Ultimate, Business ... whichever you got) legally from the Internet, burn it to the DVD and install using the key you have.
A key for 32bit or 64 bit version of Windows will work on either, provided it's the same edition.

I think the OS will support your old hardware, but the problem right now is that your hardware (CPU) doesn't support x64 set of instructions.

 

[Saturn0660]

I have a very old RCA Ebook that is no longer in production. Recently bought a new PC windows 7 64 bit- the damn book will not work with it. It beep beeps at me andtells me that it cannot install the device, even using the disc it cannot load the driver. Is this indicative of windows 7? It worked just fine on vista.

I have a workaround, and that is the book takes a very old Smart Media card, kinda big, verrrry thin....

Does anyone have any ideas?

Smartcards are pretty standard devices so you chould be able to get a 6 in 1 media reader device (they connect via USB and each slot shows up as a different drive letter). Providing it's just a FAT/FAT32 file system you should be able to copy and past the files.

Of course getting the files in the format needed to be read by the software could be a bit harder.

any idea where i can buy those old smart cards? everything I've read says they're no longer in production

Hell, if i still have mine i'll throw the thing in an envelope and send it to you.. no charge..

 

[Garm Bel Iblis]

Smartcards are pretty standard devices so you chould be able to get a 6 in 1 media reader device (they connect via USB and each slot shows up as a different drive letter). Providing it's just a FAT/FAT32 file system you should be able to copy and past the files.

Of course getting the files in the format needed to be read by the software could be a bit harder.

any idea where i can buy those old smart cards? everything I've read says they're no longer in production

Hell, if i still have mine i'll throw the thing in an envelope and send it to you.. no charge..

THANKS! I sent you a pm with my info,. let me know if you find it

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Win7 could have had this kind of support removed altogether.

I know, during the creation of a slipstream install for XP, you have the option of removing this kind of support.