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New laptop & HorizonLink update?
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brittisl1018@...
I bought my 12000 (used) about 2 months ago. After many discussions, I decided that using Horizon Link on an Intel machine would be easier than making my MAC a virtual machine. My hubby found, during Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales, an ACER laptop & external CDROM for ~ $200. Not much more than we would have paid for the MAC software needed to work with MC12000. I have installed the HorizonLink disk I received with my 12000 (version 1.0). I see on the Janome site that the current version is 1.20. Can I jump from version 1.0 to 1.2? Any hints/tricks to the update? Jim (used) says: You can update directly to 1.2 without any intervening updates. Just read ALL of the instructions first and follow them. Don't turn off the machine until you get the "Finish" screen. That's about it. |
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brittisl1018@...
I'm in the "System Update Tool"and I'm getting an error "The parameter is incorrect" when I insert the flash drive into my laptop. The Flash drive (4gb) (I formatted it on the MC12000) is being recognized by the laptop as it sees the EMB & ORD folders on the flash drive). What am I missing?? Pausing in his lifelong search for an update, Jim says: I don't know that you are missing anything, but your flash drive seems to be missing a few bits. This clever message is Windows way of saying that the drive is damaged. In the case of a USB drive, it usually means that it is worn out. The chemical process by which data is stored in the drive eventually breaks down, making it unusable. In the race to make USB drives as cheaply as possible this sometimes happens sooner rather than later. I'm afraid your drive has gone on to greener pastures, box city, curtains, bought the farm, cashed in its chips, met the reaper, bit the biscuit, fallen off its perch, kicked the bucket, left the building, gone on a permanent vacation, taken a dirt nap, passed its sell-by date, become living-challenged, sung its swan song, snuffed it, checked out. It is an ex-flash drive, no longer pining for the fjords. You may be wondering why Windows couldn't have expressed this better. Apparently the original message was "I'm terribly sorry, but your flash drive is no longer usable." Unfortunately this was initially released in an obscure Chinese dialect, then translated to all the other languages on Earth, with English being the last. Hence we got "The parameter is incorrect." I offer my sincere condolences. |
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brittisl1018@...
I have tried to get the update software onto the flash drive from 2 different laptops (win7 or win 8.1). On both laptops the flash drive is being read but the UPDATE TOOL does not recognize that the USB flash drive is installed and therefore not able to select the drive to copy to. Using 4gb San Disk USB 2.0/3.0 compatible flash drive. Recognizing a repost cleverly disguised as a new question, Jim says: So it didn't work in two different computers, but have you tried a different flash drive? It's likely that's where the problem is. A couple of points about the timely response to posts: 1. This list is moderated. That means that any message posted will not appear until I, the postmaster, have perused it. I do this because every once in a while some nefarious cretin in the back of beyond submits a post that appears to be from a member, soliciting a visit to a website that will infect the reader's computer. Those posts are summarily deleted. 2. By moderating the posts, I can get my two cents worth of nonsense inserted right into the actual post. Like this. That you're reading right now. 3. I try to review posts frequently throughout the day. However, being of advanced years, I sometimes nod off for a time. When I wake up to a screen full of whatever letter my nose landed on, I have to hold down the backspace key until they are all erased. At one time I considered just putting a paperweight on the backspace key, but the result was that I lost an awful lot of valid information and received an angry email from a Nigerian businessman complaining that my bank account number was no longer visible. I learned my lesson and now backspace responsibly, even though it sometimes takes quite a long time. I appreciate your patience and understandingggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg |
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Vikki Youngmeyer
Hope you had the data elsewhere. RIP flash drive!
Vikki Houston, TX
From: janome12000@... [mailto:janome12000@...]
Sent: Sunday, December 7, 2014 3:10 PM To: janome12000@... Subject: [janome12000] Re: New laptop & HorizonLink update?
I'm in the "System Update Tool"and I'm getting an error "The parameter is incorrect" when I insert the flash drive into my laptop. The Flash drive (4gb) (I formatted it on the MC12000) is being recognized by the laptop as it sees the EMB ORD folders on the flash drive).
Pausing in his lifelong search for an update, Jim says: I don't know that you are missing anything, but your flash drive seems to be missing a few bits. This clever message is Windows way of saying that the drive is damaged. In the case of a USB drive, it usually means that it is worn out. The chemical process by which data is stored in the drive eventually breaks down, making it unusable. In the race to make USB drives as cheaply as possible this sometimes happens sooner rather than later. I'm afraid your drive has gone on to greener pastures, box city, curtains, bought the farm, cashed in its chips, met the reaper, bit the biscuit, fallen off its perch, kicked the bucket, left the building, gone on a permanent vacation, taken a dirt nap, passed its sell-by date, become living-challenged, sung its swan song, snuffed it, checked out. It is an ex-flash drive, no longer pining for the fjords.
You may be wondering why Windows couldn't have expressed this better. Apparently the original message was "I'm terribly sorry, but your flash drive is no longer usable." Unfortunately this was initially released in an obscure Chinese dialect, then translated to all the other languages on Earth, with English being the last. Hence we got "The parameter is incorrect." I offer my sincere condolences. |
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Virginia
I think that has been the issue with most of us. I am not sure why but switching to a different port on your computer will probably correct the issue. I found that someone I helped install switched to the different port and so did I and all issues were resolved. Do not get stressed just take it slowly and remember once you install I find restarting my computer without the dongle if doing the MBX helps. So also try with Horizon Link. If you have a different flash drive than San Disk might help as well. They do have a security thing on all of their flashdrives so be sure to clean your drive first. I ended up using my Imation drive that I got from Memorysuppliers about 4 years ago. Not that you have to order a new drive a different brand might help.
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Virginia
If you are updating you will not put the update into the folders, infact remove those folders from your flash drive. You need a clean drive to update. You only use the folders when you are embroiderying. Your machine needs to recognize the update not the folders.
Virginia -----Original Message----- From: brittisl1018@... [janome12000] To: janome12000 Sent: Sun, Dec 7, 2014 8:00 pm Subject: [janome12000] Re: New laptop & HorizonLink update? I'm in the "System Update Tool"and I'm getting an error "The parameter is incorrect" when I insert the flash drive into my laptop. The Flash drive (4gb) (I formatted it on the MC12000) is being recognized by the laptop as it sees the EMB ORD folders on the flash drive).
What am I missing?? |
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brittisl1018@...
Jim, After doing some testing of the flash drive, we (my hubby & I) determined the flash drive was fine as we were both able to copy/open files from the drive on 2 different laptops (his is Toshiba/win 7 & mine is Acer/win 8.1). The flash drive was just bought yesterday and I had no other 4gb drives. So after downloading/extracting the files on both machines too I thought to bypass the 'update tool' executable and copy the PROG folder onto the flash drive. Still no luck. Then I copied the files from the PROG folder onto the drive and VOILA, the update finally worked. Woo Hoo! Thankfully got this compleeted before going to bed last night so I was not up thinking about how to outwit a machine. Thanks for explaining your role. I will try to be more patient when I am frustrated and ask a question.  Having once been outwitted by an ironing board, Jim says: By copying the files onto the flash drive you duplicated what the update utility does. There is something about the file structure of the drive that caused the update utility to encounter an error. It might be that the drive is formatted in something other than FAT32. I've seen that in some of the SD memory cards. There are also some drives that are set up so that part of the drive functions like a CD, containing software to be installed on the host computer. If a program tries to write on the CD portion it will fail with an error. You won't see that, because you will be copying to the portion of the drive that is writeable. It is possible to remove the software section of the drive, but doing so requires using a utility from the manufacturer of the drive. |
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cas@...
Jim, my computer says the syntax is incorrect, or something similar, when I
insert my flash drive. I’m guessing it’s shot too? I’m sad. It
had files from the last 10 years on it that I took off my PC when I upgraded
from XP. If I do it again I’m definitely using a hard drive to back it
up.
The drive was almost brand new, used maybe four times. The files were
there (on the flash drive) before I formatted my PC.
Cas
Far from brand new, Jim says: Maybe, maybe not. The "parameter is incorrect" message seems to be an indication of a damaged drive, and that can certainly happen to one that is quite old. However in your case it may just be that the formatting is damaged. Try right clicking the drive in Windows Explorer and choosing the "Format" option. This will erase everything on the drive, but it may not be accessible anyway. I've noticed that every single movie or TV show that features a USB drive always shows the drive being pulled out of the computer the second the progress bar hits 100%. This is great for the hero getting away with the data that will save the world, but it's not real world. In fact, yanking a USB drive out without asking Windows to approve the removal is an excellent way to create problems with the drive and possibly lose data that's on it. When data is copied to a USB drive it is written in blocks. Writing to the USB drive is a fairly slow operation, so there may be a lot of blocks lined up *ready to be written* in the computer memory, but not actually written. Also the directory of the drive must be updated after the data is written. If it is removed before that happens you are guaranteed to have trouble. A USB drive should never be removed unless the "Safe removal of hardware" procedure has been followed (Eject on a Mac). |
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Jim Sproles
Jim, I always enjoy your answers, but this is one of your best!
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