Hi BigJim, I didn't think much of your advice but a couple of days later I
have to give up and agree with you. XP Pro performance is my choice.most of
the apps stripped out. What do you think? I want the machine mostly for HDV
editing


"BigJim" wrote in message
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my guess is a missing driver and if Sony doesn't have a driver for the
camera your dead in the water.
Go back to xp.
"Xplorer" postreply@hereplease wrote in message
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I have a Sony HDV FX7 camcorder that acknowledges the conection by
firewire to my laptop running Vista Ultimate. My laptop however cannot
'see' the camcorder. I am using Pinacle software but the problem exists
also with Microsoft moviemaker. Help Please