USB Flash Drive (Nathan Lineback) driver help
Monday, November 12, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by EricW
(2 messages posted)
Hi all,
I am currently trying to use an older 200Mhz Windows 95 (C version) system to acquire
and transfer high speed video. Unfortunately a newer system is not available to me
and upgrading has large risks as the drivers for the acquisition system were made
specifically for this version of windows.
Anyway, the current method of getting these videos off of the computer is to burn
a CD using a SCSI drive. The computer has USB ports built in and I would prefer to
use a flash drive to transfer the files if possible. The basic drivers have been
loaded to use USB which are displayed in the device manager as follows:
Intel 82371SB PCI to USB Universal Host Controller
USB Root Hub
What I've done so far is unzipped the files onto a CD and tranferred the four files
that Lineback has into the following path:
C:\flashdisk
I have tried right clicking the two .ini files and then clicking "Install" followed
by inserting USB flash drives of various size and format into the port (one SanDisk
Cruzer Mini 1GB (FAT32), a generic 512 MB with FAT32, and a 32MB with FAT formatting).
When I insert the various devices, the 1GB device appears to load normally except
it shows up as "Unknown Device" in the device manager. The other two drives initiates
the load drivers window, but any time I've tried to point those (including the SanDisk
one when using other loading methods) to the C:\flashdisk directory, it does not
recognize those as drivers. I have also tried to force the "Unknown Device" to be
recognized as a removable drive, but that fails. I've tried installing the .ini then
restarting before putting the flash drives in, I've tried inserting the flash drives
before and after do the above installation method including rebooting with the flash
drives inserted.
I have manually uninstalled from the device manager the "Unknown Device" and physically
deleted the drivers from the hard drive several times to make sure its a fresh install
before starting over.
Does anyone see anything wrong with my methodology? I have only used Windows 95 a
little bit in the past and am not all that familiar with the way it handles drivers
and perhaps I'm missing something simple. All suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks, EricW
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