Windows XP Home & Microstation SE 5.7

Good morning everyone.

I have recently upgraded some of my computers from NT4 Workstation to
XP Home and I have started to get file corruption reports from my
users. It only occurs on the XP Home machine. This is what happens:

A user would open a file on a server (Windows Server 2003) and
sometimes everything is fine. When he opens another file again then
there is this dialog box which says 'end of file missing' repair?. If
he answers yes then the file is corrupted. If he press the 'escape'
key then and opens the file via Microstation File manager, then
everything is fine. On the average this occurs 1 out of every 3 file
opening process.

Any ideas on why this is occuring would help us a lot.

Thank you very much.

 

My recommendation would be to unload Windows XP Home, reformat the
drives and load Windows XP Pro onto the machines. Microstation SE 5.7
is an old version of Microstation and should be upgraded to at least
Microstation-J latest version. Microstation V-8 would be the ideal
version to upgrade to, but since most MDL's, Macros, and User Commands
need to be recompiled to make them work with V-8, I would not
recommend going to V-8. AutoCAD will not work with XP Home without
much gnashing of teeth and software manipulation if even then.

It seems that you are trying to use archaic software programs with a
new operating system. Programs that were never certified by either
Bently, AutoDesk or Microsoft to be compatible or workable with
Windows XP Home.

Like all good things, it has come time to upgrade all your software,
not just your operating software.

Michael Oakley

 

Thanks Michael,

Yes, we have been planning to upgrade to V7 2 years ago but most of
our MDLs and Exe programs were designed for MS95 & MSSE. We are
talking of several hundreds of MDLs/Exe files here (972 to be exact)
which are regularly being used for our various projects. They have
started to convert to MSJ but again V8 came out so management was
hesitant to continue to upgrade to V7 when V8 was just around the
corner. Plus there is the learning curve for our programmers to learn
a new system. Plus bugs that needs to be fixed per MDL.

I think I will take your advise and revert back to Win NT or Win2K.
The OS is a lot cheaper than the MS V8.

Thanks.