re: FYI, flash drives for Win95-XP
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Windows 95 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by thattoo
(10 messages posted)
I actually had a 1GB Sandisk Cruzer Micro (the only flash drive I've ever had)
working fine (or so it seemed) on Windows 95 on a machine with an Intel Venus board
and a Pentium Pro CPU.
I don't remember what people were saying they usually did to get USB storage devices
working on Windows 95 at the time I got it working, except that the usual way didn't
work for me, probably because of which drive I had.
What did finally work was an unheard-of
(to me) driver download that I tried out of a combination of desperation and
boredom. [I've just downloaded the w95usbflash11.zip file from that location to
check it, and its md5sum (af51508062c2f377290289c393eb599c) does still match my archived
copy of the one that seemed to work for me.]
The motherboard on that machine eventually died, but only after acting normal
for several months; so while I can't vouch for that driver's safety, it seems to
be worth mentioning here, even if only to call it to someone's attention who might
know better than I did. But it was a very old motherboard (obviously!), I'd had
that machine running almost continuously for several years, and I had reason to suspect
that a scanner plugged into a buggy SCSI card was instead what finally became too
much for it.
~~~ The people out to get you are paranoid. ~~~
On Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at 7:31 pm, Louis wrote:
>For the 5 or 6 of us left in the U.S. who still use Win95, here's some info on flash
>drives. Been using the drives on Win95 since Nathan Lineback made his Win95 flash
>driver available 2 yrs ago. But some drives seem to work better than others so I
>thought I'd post my findings here w/a heads up for finding the ones that work (for
>me). Micro Advantage 128MB QuickiDrive has been a workhorse, probably 6 yrs old.
>Can't hold much info and it's USB 1 but thanks to Nathan it works everytime. Not
>available anymore. The older style (made 2+ yrs ago) Memorex travel drive 2 & 4GB
>(gray body w/a clear removable plastic cap) work on all my PC's 95-XP w/o a hitch.
>The newer 2007 versions which have a black plastic cover that the (color coded)
drive
>flips opens out of (like a penknife blade opens outward) also work just fine but
>I deleted the enclosed software, no purpose for it. I personally do not care for
>the flip open design. Nothing but grief from the SanDisk Cruzer model that retracts
>via thumb slide action. Major headache with blue screen crashes on Win95, occasional
>problems on 2K and XP. For some reason the SanDisk cruzer does work on my laptop's
>Win98SE?!? I have found plenty of the older style Memorex drives on eBay in the
1,
>2 & 4GB models, prices vary. I've ordered a couple and they work just fine on all
>Win OS's I mentioned previously. Just make sure you carefully read the ad, some
are
>sold as multiple lots, some are asking ridiculous prices or tacking on steep shipping
>costs and keep clear of Amazon for these units, insane asking prices. Haven't tried
>the PNY or Kingston drives. - Louis
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