Hi,
Those of you who use XRY will probably know what the question will be…
Does Windows 7 64bit support XRY 5.3?
I'm having fierce trouble finding out. The XRY website is completely useless and the release notes only seems to inform me of the phones it supports!
I've just installed it on a W7 machine, and the software seems to have installed OK, but I'm having trouble with the card reader? It works on XP, but on 7 it says there are no drivers for it?
(Which upon writing this has me think its the reader and not the software… but who knows!)
Anybody any tips or location of drivers would be greatly appreciated… can't seem to get anywhere with this on W7 at the mo!
Thanks
4R
XRY and 64bit don't go together full stop sadly -(
It's due to XRY having to rely largely on third party drivers, and as the drivers don't usually support 64 bit, then XRY is pretty pointless on such a system.
The reader works fine.
I know that this is hardly the best solution, but has anyone had success doing the extractions in a virtual machine running a 32 bit guest OS? If the reader runs on 64bit, then you'd only have to be out of your native environment for the extraction itself.
Feels like it should work. Also means you can really really easily roll back to a clean system.
I have read about the VM option, but I hate using that yoke, so I've opted for plan B… Dual Boot (I'm versioning the machine W7XPDB) )
However, two blue screens of death on install are hindering my cunning plan… Damn you Bill Gates!
Grrr…
The best laid plans…
Go on! Try the VM option (for my own curiosity if nothing else!)
From the horses mouth as it where
"the short answer is that XRY doesn't function on 64-bit Windows machines. Nothing to do with XRY as a piece of software, it's instead a function of the whole list of device drivers which XRY relies upon to make meaningful connections with the many handsets.
However, two things
a) Native support for 64-Bit machines, with all included drivers, is a development priority for 2011 and speaking purely personally, I hope this will happen over the first half of the year.
b) We have many users successfully running XRY on 64-Bit machines, either via the Virtual PC included in Windows 7, set to run XRY in XP mode - or via VMWare Player. Seems there are clever ways around anything! "
Hope this helps )
Many thanks to CFUNN and burratha for answering the question - which is verified.
4Rensics - for future if you are struggling to get an answer to any questions like this; please feel free to email or call us. Support during office hours is all part of the XRY licencing package and we do aim to respond as quickly as possible.
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We currently have XRY running on a VMware Player running XP on our W7 computers.
XP will run as 32bit in VMware Player so all the drivers seem to install work as on a normal 32bit XP system (so far)
We tried the XP Mode that comes with W7 but VMware Player gave a much better result (regarding drivers and recognizing devises correctly). Both are free so its a simple cost effective way around the 64bit issue with XRY for now.
We currently have XRY running on a VMware Player running XP on our W7 computers.
I tried this recently (I think it was XRY 5.1 or 5.2, though), and I had issues getting dongles/phones to show up in the VMWare player, and for whatever reason I could only get things working adequately with the latest full version VMWare Workstation. I also tried VirtualBox hosted on OSX and Windows 7 (similar results)
Did you run into any of these problems? If so, how did you solve them?