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re: FYI, flash drives for Win95-XP Friday, April 3, 2009 at 8:03 am Posted by jack hall (288 messages posted) PNY has excellent flash drives. They're combatable in 2.0, 1.1 and 1.0. As well the drivers are available thru their website. 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: FYI, flash drives for Win95-XP Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 3:20 pm 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 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: FYI, flash drives for Win95-XP Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 4:43 pm Posted by thattoo (10 messages posted) I should make clear that the link I posted is (apparently) to Nathan Lineback's Web site (the same person mentioned in Louis's message here). My point is only that a SanDisk Cruzer Micro did work for me with that driver for the whole last few months before my motherboard died (whatever that means). ~~~ The people out to get you are paranoid. ~~~ [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: FYI, flash drives for Win95-XP Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 8:01 pm Posted by Louis (37 messages posted) I tried something different recently on Win95 & Win98 with Nathan's software. I started with a clean Win98 install and then inserted a flash drive. When the system asked where to find information for the new device I pointed it to the folder with Nathan's software. After the flash was now working, I switched to another flash drive and followed the same procedure, I continued this until all the drives had been installed. I also did this with the current Win95 install. So far everything works fine. Win95 has had no problems with any of the drives either, but I've avoided using the Sandisk drive on Win95. Probably a hardware issue between the PC and the flash, the Sandisk works fine on my laptop Win98 partition, so far ;) On Tuesday, April 14, 2009 at 4:43 pm, thattoo wrote: >I should make clear that the link I posted is (apparently) to Nathan Lineback's Web >site (the same person mentioned in Louis's message here). My point is only that >a SanDisk Cruzer Micro did work for me with that driver for the whole last few months >before my motherboard died (whatever that means). [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 95 Discussion Forum