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re: USB Flash Drive (Nathan Lineback) driver help
Monday, December 24, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Louis
(23 messages posted)
Eric, did you ever solve the problem? The 1st time I tried using Nathan's USB hack
my Dell 4100 wouldn't recognize a Micro Advantage 128MB USB1 flash yet it quickly
recognized a Memorex 2GB USB2 flash. However when I tried using Nathan's software
on all my other Win95 PC's/partitions they all recognized both flash units, now all
my Win95 PC's use the flash drives. It would be worth knowing if some flash drives
are a problem so I can avoid buying them as many of the older types are on sale now
to make way for the new "Vista ReadyBoost" flash drives, might be a good time to
get some deal$ on older style flash drives! Also worth noting, I have access to a
local college campus and find that my Micro flash will not work on the front USB
ports of some of the PC's at the campus. I need to use the rear mounted USB ports
instead. I see an obvious physical difference between the USB1 & USB2 drives I just
mentioned. I assume this is the only reason I had a problem at 1st getting the Micro
to work, perhaps it needed to be seated better on my PC, as it can't insert as deep
as the USB2 drive does. But it will not work on the front USB ports of newer PC's.
So if anyone finds they have a problem w/one flash, try another model.
BTW, I didn't try to load the .ini's 1st, I plugged the flash in and when asked for
the software needed to use the new device, I pointed it to the directory w/the files,
loaded w/o a problem. (Was the .ini install rt click part of a Win PwrToys, Tweeks
or such group? I can't remember how to do this on the new HD I just set up for Win
95) Recently I also tried loading a USB mouse but so far have no had success with
the one I have, missing too many files like mouhid.vxd but I'll keep trying to get
a USB mouse to work on Win95 if it's possible. If anyone has gotten a USB mouse to
work on Win95 please post the info! - FYI for those who do not know about using a
USB flash w/Win95 - http://toastytech.com/files/cruzerwin95.html - Louis
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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