USB driver needed for win98

[LT. Columbo]

on my old laptop with win98, when i insert my 32MB flash drive it says it has no drivers for it. is there one out there for this thing? i've tried one "generic one" and it looks like it was made for win 98SE.

[doctorhardware]

Who is the manufacturer of the flash drive, maybe they might have a driver? Just an idea.

[cynthia]

There are some drivers on this page:

http://www.usb-drivers.com/companies/667.htm?acd=3&rvd=5&thx=9&bng=7&o=3

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/usbwin98.mspx

[soup]

You can try here.

[LT. Columbo]

no idea who makes the drive, it was given to me, i seen those pages too but don't know which is the right one.

the last one says "no host controller" when i try to install. lost i is.

[Chewy]

google

http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php

[LT. Columbo]

i installed that top one

"Windows 98 SE Generic USB Mass Storage Device Drivers v2.4 - nusb24e.exe" it isn't SE though. 2.0, 2.1....?

[Chewy]

this must be the peugot laptop

[LT. Columbo]

this must be the peugot laptop

its a samsung or toshiba and old as the rocks of gibraltar. 32MB ram. so you're out of ideas....that one should have worked?

[Chewy]

it was a long shot since microsoft didn't even provide the usb support with SE
after the fact, 98 1st edit was a completely different OS in many ways.

pretty sure most of the drivers are only for SE

[Abuilder]

I think those old Toshiba's had a proprietary USB port on them.
Try driverguide here:

http://www.usb-drivers.com/companies/1066.htm

Or use the old original Win95 SR2 drivers here:

http://www.aesystems.com/usb_install.html

Sometimes it handy being a day older than dirt and still remember things. LOL

[LT. Columbo]

alright fellas. i'll try it tomorow,

thanx for the time

[LT. Columbo]

like i expected, nothing works. my laptop isn't even listed in there. this just goes to show anyone with old equipment like this should smash the livin crap out of them. floppy discs it will have to be.

thanx anyway guys.

[Abuilder]

You could pickup one of those external parallel ZIP drives for almost nothing these days. It does have a printer port right?
Does it have a hard drive?
Is it CGA video?

ROFLMAO

[LT. Columbo]

dunno, dunno, dunno and don't care!

my wife uses it to type documents when she wants to escape the cigar smoke, then uses floppies to transfer from there to her pc. i keep telling her it's a piece of sh!t and get a new one. i have a 4GB flash drive but thats mine, so i gave her the 32mb one. would have been nice if it could have worked. frickin computers. i quit with this. should be able to plug it in and go, not piss around with all this driver business. dang, some thing are better left smashed. might as well smash the 32MB flash drive too since i got no use for it now!

btw it has a whopping 4GB HD!