Good afternoon!
I have done my best to Search and read through many of the Sticky and normal posts that might relate to trying to get my Clie to talk to my new HP laptop, on both this forum as well as others. I think that there may still be a couple of things to try; however, I would be very appreciative if one or more of you can help shorten the process for me, since I've already invested a dozen hours or so on this issue and I'm a bit tired and frazzled.
- My Clie came with Palm Desktop v4.x. In its HotSync Manager or elsewhere, I do not see a bluetooth setting. I'm wondering if that it's only in Palm Desktop v6.x? If so, is Palm Desktop v6.x compatible with Sony Clie NZ90 (i.e., can I upgrade to v6.x without losing all of my data)? If not, is there any way I can do a bluetooth HotSync using Palm Desktop v4.x? Both the Clie and my HP laptop have bluetooth.
- My new HP laptop is a 64-bit machine. I have tried installing the Sony Clie / Palm Desktop software from both the regular as well as the x86 Program Files directories, and I get an immediate incompatibility notice, so I am unclear as to how to get Windows 7 to recognize the Clie and Palm Desktop even using the Aceeca drivers. Running under Windows 7 is not critical, since I have a Windows XP Virtual Machine that seems to work well, but I figured I should ask in case I was missing something obvious.
- As I said previously, I have the Windows XP Virtual machine up and running. I installed the Sony Clie / Palm Desktop software with no problem, and I can use the Palm Desktop v4.x. However, when I try to HotSync via USB, the Windows XP Virtual machine tries to load drivers, and can't find them. In the past (on previous Windows XP machines), I have just had to specifically point the wizard to (browse to) the NZ90 drivers, and they would load. This failed on my laptop. I tried the Aceeca drivers, and they, too failed. Going to the Device Manager, I see that it's identified as a virtual machine device, rather than seeing it as a Palm Handheld device. Could this be the problem, and if so, is there a workaround?
- Is there anything else I'm missing at this point that can get me up and running?
Thank you in advance for all of your patience and expertise!
Post relates to: Pre Plus p100una (AT&T)
