Victoria for Windows on Vista - .sys file issue

HDD geeks will know of Victoria immediately:

http://majorgeeks.com/Victoria_for_Windows_d5688.html

No probs on XP. I am now trying it on Vista (Home) and on start, I am getting a message saying it "failed to copy driver" and to "please copy driver manually to system32/drivers folder" or similar, followed by another alert saying "Error! Can't install PortTalk driver! Available only API access". I get the same messages again a second time and then it says "Invalid handle".

I copied the porttalk.sys file from the unzipped Vic directory to system32\drivers but that did not fix the issue.

Despite all this I have been able to start the standard HDD tests and they appear to be running. Question is, do I run the risk of messing up my HDD and/or getting back false positives or negatives re its state if the detection of the accompanying .sys file by the Victoria program might be a no-go?

Just 'cause I'm paranoid don't mean I'm wrong. :-D

 

Oh yeah, I saw that. I was just thinking maybe it would still run, just it hadn't been tested or verified by the author re Vista (a lot of people won't even bother making Vista-compatible stuff or verifying it since it is a marginal O/S compared with XP, and besides, it sucks, overall.)

Finding ways to get s/w that is said to be incompatible with a certain O/S to "become compatible" is a hobby of mine, since it's also half my datburned job.

But if it is of any value to my fellow MG readers, so far the HDD tests are running fine (ie, no error messages during run time). I will say for laughs I stopped the tests and shut Vic down earlier just to see what would happen and I got the too-familiar "Microsoft COM has stopped working for this program" as it shut down, but my system didn't crash or anything... yet...

 

I wasn't expecting it to, but it looks like that worked! No error messages. Thanks for the suggestion! :dood