Jlo555

A lot of times if windows has already detected a device more than once it doesn't actually tell you. I found this out when I went to Control Panel>Add/Remove Hardware>Detect new hardware, VOILA "hp psc 1200 series". So, you might want to try that.

Hm, I didn't even use the thing long enough on win98 to notice that other problem. I did try the Decim USB driver, and uhh, well let's just say the end result was a Blue Screen of Death, almost instantaneously after plugging the hdd into the usb port. I must say he had a VERY good idea of making windows 98 nativly support new popular USB devices. It's kind of weird, I use to have a western digital external hdd which had no problems at all on windows 98. I'm actually using windows 2000 on my computer right now because I don't know if some other people have noticed, but there are A LOT of new games being created (GTA: San Andreas for instance) that don't support any version of windows 98 OR ME. I've even seen some games that don't even support windows 2000 anymore. I hate getting pushed to upgrade like this, I've found myself to be stubborn with operating systems. It wasn't until the end of 2004 that I finally started seeing messages like "This program is only written for Windows 2000/XP."

Ah ha ha ha!! Wow, that made my day. Well, we'll see, won't we?

I'm pretty sure it's not the drivers for the hdd because the same thing happens with my mini usb thumb drive. Although, perhaps there are 2 buggy drivers, which I think is highly unlikely. I doubt windows 98 has generic drivers; and I'm actually surprised you didn't have to install drivers in winME, I guess millennium edition has its benefits.

Reinstall your video driver if you can. That "sounds" like the program might've messed with your drivers. I wouldn't try stupid little apps like that, all they do is consume system resources.

All right, so I bought a hard drive kit which said worked with windows 98SE through XP. I put the thing together with a 120gig maxtor (diamondmax plus 9). The kit is called the ADS USB 2.0 hard drive kit USBX-835. I plugged the USB cable in and turned the drive on, windows detected it and i went to the location of the win98se driver that I downloaded from the ADS tech site. The hdd kit was installed and everything went fine. Windows changed the drive letters to this: A: floppy C: primary master D: dvd-rom E: dvd-rw F: hard drive kit I then rebooted the computer, and the new drive letter config was this: A: floppy C: primary master D: dvd-rom E: dvd-rw F: ??? G: hard drive kit it now has 2 drive letters. I right clicked on my computer>properties and windows stated that drive F: was using the "MS-DOS compatibility mode", so I clicked for more information and it said somehting along the lines of "your driver must really suck." (sorry, im not actually on that computer right now, so i don't know what it really said.) I then unplugged the hdd and letter G: went away, I rebooted to find a BSOD which said windows could not write to drie F:. It does the EXACT same thing with my USB 128mb thumb drive. :weird: How do I go about fixing this? Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Yeah, I STRONGLY suggest that you make sure you have drivers that will work on windows 98 before you do this. It might get frustrating if you get the OS installed and find out you have no video driver and you're stuck in 16 colors, (or whatever it is.) If this was a store bought computer (HP, Compaq, Dell) then the chances are high that you could be out of luck finding drivers for the system. I know that when I built my system last year, it was hard to find hardware that was compatible with 98SE through XP, now its one year later and I'm sure it's even more difficult. On another note, I must say that I really admire everyone who is still maintaining windows 98, fight the power!! It's getting harder and harder to find people who will say "Man XP is terrible, I'm re-installing 98SE immediately." If more people stick with windows 98 and don't switch over, hardware and software developers "will" (or at least should) continue to make hardware/software for the OS, so keep it up!