I recently got a Verbatim 2GB lash drive, however I need to find a driver for Win98 (4.10.1998) on a Compaq Presario 5000 BW. I could really use the extra storage space. Any tips out there? Thanks for your help. Mike Crane

[Reply or follow-up to this message]

Try here http://www.verbatim.com.au/products/downloads.cfm?id=95021 scroll to bottom of screen.


On Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 3:45 am, Michael W, Crane wrote:
>I recently got a Verbatim 2GB lash drive, however I need to find a driver for Win98
>(4.10.1998) on a Compaq Presario 5000 BW. I could really use the extra storage space.
>Any tips out there? Thanks for your help.
>Mike Crane

[Reply or follow-up to this message]

Just for future info, Michael, the U-storage driver, which you can download from many sites, is very close to being a universal flash memory stick driver. I've used it with maybe 10-15 different sticks over the last few years and I haven't yet found one that it doesn't work with.

This should not be surprising. Regardless of brand, all memory sticks are designed to the same standard. When a driver works for one but not another, it's almost certainly because it has been tailored very precisely to a particular model spec.


On Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 3:45 am, Michael W, Crane wrote:
>I recently got a Verbatim 2GB lash drive, however I need to find a driver for Win98
>(4.10.1998) on a Compaq Presario 5000 BW. I could really use the extra storage space.
>Any tips out there? Thanks for your help.
>Mike Crane

[Reply or follow-up to this message]

On Thursday, December 6, 2007 at 3:24 pm, Alan Masterman wrote:
|the U-storage driver, which you can download from 
|many sites, is very close to being a universal flash 
|memory stick driver.  I've used it with maybe 10-15 different sticks
|over the last few years and I haven't yet found 
|one that it doesn't work with.


Well Alan I have 4 Kingston and 3 PQI USB flash drives and each size needs different 
drivers.

I've tried the Windows 
98 USB Mass Storage Device Drivers but can't get them to work.

I recently bought a Kingston 2Gb drive and the drivers for that allow me to access 
the other 3 Kingston drives.

You will find when gewg_ reads this he will make a comment about these Windows 
98 USB Mass Storage Device Drivers, he's used them and found they work. 

[Reply or follow-up to this message]

|||I recently got a Verbatim 2GB lash drive
||| Michael W, Crane
|||
Is that the lash drive you have to tie to the top of your car
or the one that hits you with a bullwhip?  8-)

|||I need to find a driver for Win98
|||
Ah.  This old chestnut.
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site:annoyances.org+"forum+win98"+intitle:usb+intitle:drive
Especially
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=site:annoyances.org+"forum+win98"+...+toastytech


|I have 4 Kingston and 3 PQI USB flash drives and each size needs different drivers
| Keith Stanier
|
I don't think Keith burned his offerings to the USB gods
in quite the proper way.  ;-)
I almost never see a failure report WRT these "universal" drivers
and Keith's report of *mass failure* is unique in my observation.

|You will find when gewg_ reads this
|he will make a comment about these Windows 98 USB Mass Storage Device Drivers,
|he's used them and found they work.
|
Yup.  The attempt here is to make a "universal" device driver.
The one Keith mentioned is from Maximus Decim and is a good one.
Nathan Lineback has an even better one (covering even more devices/brands). 
cache of http://toastytech.com/files/cruzerwin95.html


||When a driver works for one but not another, it's almost certainly
||because it has been tailored very precisely to a particular model spec
|| Alan Masterman
||
Well, kinda: "model" is right; "spec" isn't.
More specifically:
What is missing from those drivers is **that** device's *Plug 'n' Play ID number*.
Capitalism being what it is, a manufacturer isn't going to go to any trouble
to assure the data for the gear of *his competition*
is included in the driver he supplies for *his* gear.

Hackers (such as the 2 mentioned) have no dog in this fight,
so they put EVERYTHING THEY CAN FIND into their personal versions.

I don't even recommend farting around with the manufacturers' drivers;
go get the **universal** one straight away.
Only if that doesn't work do I advise looking on the mfr's site.

[Reply or follow-up to this message]

• Search this forum
• Start a new thread on a different subject

• Report abuse of the forum