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MikeF74 · 10-09-2007, 09:07 PM

I broke down and bought a PRS-505 yesterday while I was in Pennsylvania on business. Well, I was in Philly and drove 20 miles to the Sony Style store in King of Prussia.

I just wanted to relate that the installer fails on my brand new 64-bit Vista installation.

I was going to capture MSI logs and maybe open the installer up in ORCA and poke around (since part of my job is writing an installer for an application I develop). But then I decided to just install it in an XP Pro VM and then copy the resulting files. That seemed to work just fine.

I copied the C:\Program Files\Sony\Reader directory to C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\Reader. Created a shortcut, and ran it. It worked just fine.

I was able to authorize my computer and my device. Download free books and download a purchased book.

I can only assume that the installer failed because it was trying to load the older driver for the PRS-500 onto the system. I can't say for sure since I didn't get around to any logging.

Anyway, it works and I'm happy.

10-09-2007, 09:07 PM	#1
MikeF74 Groupie Posts: 179 Karma: 28 Join Date: May 2007 Device: Sony PRS-505	Installing PRS-505 Software on Vista64 I broke down and bought a PRS-505 yesterday while I was in Pennsylvania on business. Well, I was in Philly and drove 20 miles to the Sony Style store in King of Prussia. I just wanted to relate that the installer fails on my brand new 64-bit Vista installation. I was going to capture MSI logs and maybe open the installer up in ORCA and poke around (since part of my job is writing an installer for an application I develop). But then I decided to just install it in an XP Pro VM and then copy the resulting files. That seemed to work just fine. I copied the C:\Program Files\Sony\Reader directory to C:\Program Files (x86)\Sony\Reader. Created a shortcut, and ran it. It worked just fine. I was able to authorize my computer and my device. Download free books and download a purchased book. I can only assume that the installer failed because it was trying to load the older driver for the PRS-500 onto the system. I can't say for sure since I didn't get around to any logging. Anyway, it works and I'm happy.