Flash drive and Win98 FE

[ramendik]

Hello,

I could not make a Transcend JetFlash 110 (512MB) USB flash drive work on an old notebook computer witrh USB1 and Windows 98 (first version, not SE). It works on another USB1 machine, so Windows 98 is probably the reason.

The driver manual says it's for Windows 98 SE...

Is there any way to make it work? Apart from installing a newer version of Windows, of course.

Edited October 29, 2005 by ramendik

[Andromeda43]

In a word: "NO"!

When they say Windows 98/SE, that's exactly what they mean.

SE is as much a totally different os from old 98 as XP is.

Flash drives that plug into USB ports just require much more support than is built into old 98.

Get yourself an SE upgrade disk and bring your system up to 98/SE. You'll be very glad you did.

I do this all the time. Still you may need drivers from the flash drive manufacturer.

This is what happened to me with my SanDisk Micro. Once I had the drivers downloaded from SanDisk, I installed them on the old PC and rebooted, then my Flash Drive worked without a hitch.

Good Luck,

Andromeda43