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Flash drive and Win98 FE Want to access Transcend JetFlash 110 from Win98 non-SE, is this possi Rate Topic: -----

#1 User is offline   ramendik 

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  Posted 29 October 2005 - 11:48 AM

Hello,

I could not make a Transcend JetFlash 110 (512MB) USB flash drive work on an old notebook computer witrh USB1 and Windows 98 (first version, not SE). It works on another USB1 machine, so Windows 98 is probably the reason.

The driver manual says it's for Windows 98 SE...

Is there any way to make it work? Apart from installing a newer version of Windows, of course.

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Posted 31 October 2005 - 04:27 PM

In a word: "NO"!

When they say Windows 98/SE, that's exactly what they mean.

SE is as much a totally different os from old 98 as XP is.

Flash drives that plug into USB ports just require much more support than is built into old 98.

Get yourself an SE upgrade disk and bring your system up to 98/SE. You'll be very glad you did.

I do this all the time. Still you may need drivers from the flash drive manufacturer.
This is what happened to me with my SanDisk Micro. Once I had the drivers downloaded from SanDisk, I installed them on the old PC and rebooted, then my Flash Drive worked without a hitch.

Good Luck,
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