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re: USB Flash Drive (Nathan Lineback) driver help
Thursday, November 22, 2007 at 9:16 am
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(5974 messages posted)
Only Win 95B would possibly work (and only if specifically stated as being supported)
and IME, all of the flash drives I have worked with require WIN 98 SE as the minimum,
and that is quickly disappearing in favor of W2K and XP or later. Few are supporting
even Win 98 now...
On Monday, November 12, 2007 at 5:30 pm, EricW wrote:
>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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