Guide to Mini Cooper Coding I

The Beginner’s Guide to Coding with NCS Expert
Section I
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Installation
This is the easiest way that this program can be installed. There is no
misleading action to undertake, it is easier to comprehend and faster to install.
Best of all, it’s in plain English this time – no more NCS in Dutch or German.
This software can be use whether you have a Mini or BMW, however for the
purpose to have this archive smaller, I concentrated files’ specifics for Mini
owners.
If you follow the step by step setup, you shall face no problem whatsoever.
Part I: Download Software
This guide is distributed as part of an archive that contains 5 sub-folders:

● Mini Cooper Standard Tools 5.0
● Datens (v38)
● Datens (v40) for recent/newer models
● Cable Drivers
● Profile
Part II: Cable Drivers
1. Extract the Drivers.zip archive located in the Drivers sub-folder of your

working directory. You can simply extract it to its current location.
2. Connect the diagnostic cable to your PC and to your vehicle. Wait a few
moments for Windows to inform you that it was unable to locate drivers
automatically – you will have a new device called “D-CAN” in Device Manager.
If not, then Windows already had the updated drivers and you can skip to part 5.
3. Right-click the “D-CAN” device and select “Update Driver Software”.

Choose to browse your computer for driver software and select the “Drivers”
folder in your working directory. Windows will find and install drivers for this
device. It will now appear as “USB Serial Converter” under “Universal Serial
Bus controllers”.
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4. Windows will now detect another new device called “USB Serial Port”. Follow
the same procedure from Step 3, pointing Windows to the “Drivers” folder to
install drivers for this device.
After the drivers are installed, Windows will assign a COM port to this device
and it will appear as “USB Serial Port (COM X)”, where X is the assigned COM
port number. Please remember this number as you will need it for NCS setup.
5. Right-click on the “USB Serial Port (COM X)” device in Device Manager and
open its properties pane. Navigate to the “Port Settings” tab, click on
“Advanced...”, and locate the setting for “Latency Timer”. This value will be 16
by default. Change it to 1, and close the properties pane and Device Manager.
You are now finished installing the drivers for your diagnostic cable.
Part III: Mini Cooper Standard Tools
1. Extract the archive in the “Mini Cooper Standard Tools 5.0” sub-folder and
run “setup.exe”, located in the “Programinstallation” folder. If you are using
Windows 7, you will need to enable Windows XP compatibility mode for
“setup.exe” (right click on-properties-Compatibility tab- Run this program in
compatibility mode for Windows Xp Sp2)
.
● Use the defaults for all installation paths (meaning just skip by clicking Next.
● Uncheck the box for “Execute backup and restore wizard”.
● Select the COM port from Step 3 of the previous section. Do not check the
box for “USB to serial adapter”.
● Restart your computer when prompted to do so.
2. You are now finished installing Mini Cooper Standard Tools 5.0. If you opted
to have desktop shortcuts created, then you will have shortcuts for INPA and
NCS Expert on your desktop. If you didn’t, you may want to create shortcuts for
them now. Their paths are (respectively):
● C:\EC-APPS\INPA\BIN\INPALOAD.EXE
● C:\NCSEXPER\BIN\NCSEXPER.EXE
You may also want to create a shortcut to the C:\NCSEXPER\WORK folder,

which you will also be using every time you work with NCS Expert.
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Part IV: Datens
1. Inside the “Datens (v38)” folder should have been archived all the V38
and V40 for each chassis supported (BMW and Minis).
However in order to have the file small for a quicker download, I only limited the
Datens to Mini Coopers.
Since Minis models such as models R55, R56, R57, and R60 models all use the
R56 datens, I thought it would be easier and quicker to go that way.
**V40 was uploaded but I never tested them - I only verified V38 on my car**
2. Extract it to a temporary folder. The archive will contain 3 sub-folders. You

will need to copy/paste the files in these sub-folders accordingly:
● All files in “daten” → C:\NCSEXPER\DATEN\XXX (where XXX is your

chassis code)
● All files in “sgdat” → C:\NCSEXPER\SGDAT
● All files in “ecu” → C:\EDIABAS\ECU
Do not copy the folders themselves, only the files inside them. Choose “Copy
and Replace” to resolve conflicts.
3. Navigate to “C:\NCSEXPER\DATEN\XXX” (where XXX is your chassis code)

and run the “LADEN.BAT” file.
4. Finally, copy “REVTOR.PFL” from the “Profile” folder in your working

directory into “C:\NCSEXPER\PFL”.
You have now finished setting-up NCS Expert; open Section II to learn how to
read/code modules in your car
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The Beginner’s Guide to Coding with NCS Expert

Part I: Download Software

This guide is distributed as part of an archive that contains 5 sub-folders:

Part II: Cable Drivers

1. Extract the Drivers.zip archive located in the Drivers sub-folder of your

3. Right-click the “D-CAN” device and select “Update Driver Software”.

Part III: Mini Cooper Standard Tools

You may also want to create a shortcut to the C:\NCSEXPER\WORK folder,

2. Extract it to a temporary folder. The archive will contain 3 sub-folders. You

● All files in “daten” → C:\NCSEXPER\DATEN\XXX (where XXX is your

3. Navigate to “C:\NCSEXPER\DATEN\XXX” (where XXX is your chassis code)

4. Finally, copy “REVTOR.PFL” from the “Profile” folder in your working

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