Thread: PRS-505 Sideloading Possible?
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Old 12-06-2017, 05:24 PM   #24
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Originally Posted by rkomar View Post
I think your problem is that you're interpreting "downloading the software to get the drivers" to mean getting the Sony software instead of the USB system drivers. If you let go of that and see that he meant downloading system software (which was common for PCs when the 505 came out), then you'll see that his post was mostly right (and not all wrong).
So tell me one computer OS that needs to have the USB drivers downloaded in order to use a 505 with it as a removable drive. There isn't such because the USB drivers are already installed. So that conjecture is out. The only one left is downloading the Sony software.
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