This is making me mad.. I went out and purchased a 1 gig SanDisk Cruzer Micro, the packaging simply stated that it required windows, no specific version, just windows. I took it home, plugged it in on my WinXP machine, ran great,...hell, i even liked the few password and u3 compatible programs. Worked well. I needed it particularly, as i needed to transfer, several of my autocad drawings from class, to home. Thing is the classroom computer i use, lacks an internet connection, a working floppy drive, and no cd-burner. So thats why i bought the cruzer. I take it in, test it out on a win98 machine, no go. I go to the next available computer, try it, no luck, i find a computer with a internet connection, and win98, and download the drivers from sandisk's site, no luck. Hell, i manually try to use the default generic drivers in windows......uh-uh Now I'm stuck with no way to transfer the damm files, and a thumb drive, good for winXP only. I was wondering however, if somewhere out there, there would be a driver compatible with it?...any idea's? Cheer's Ryan
If the supplied drivers don't work, you're in a bad spot. I had a similar problem once, in the end I found that a similar drive had been released under another brand (same shell, different logo) and used those drivers. I suppose you could try drivers for other pen drives, can't hurt, but I don't rate your chances. Make sure you're as up-to-date as possible with the latest service packs or whatever. For future reference, anything USB generally needs drivers for 98.
Look for USB1.0/1.1 drivers for that PC with win98. Chances are that PC does not have USB2.0 which is probably the drivers you downloaded in the first place from their site. Also, I suggest (if you have access) to go into device manager and plug in the mem stick, have the system scan for changes, if a ?mark comes up, uninstall it from device manager, then install the driver, reboot the PC, and then plug it in. If that doesn't work, don't worry, it isn't your memory stick (because it works at your home), it is the 98PC, which they shouldn't have.... thats quite old.
As far as i can see, there's just one driver for the damm thing,..what puzzles me is, though, Win98 detects the device, hell, it even says it a cruzer micro, but thats it. Device manager is a joke, I installed, uninstalled, rebooted, crashed it, hit the moniter in frustrartion, all to no avail..... oh.....the rest of my school runs a networked winXP, ironically, the computer which holds my data are the onlys ones not networked and running 98.... Ryan
USB devices all give an identification to windows regardless of whether the driver is there or not, from what I remember. Anyway, a quick google threw this up: http://www.expansys.com/forumthread.asp?code=122072&thread=1 Might be worth a go.
usb sticks + win98 = original drivers and not plug&play , i think it requires win98SE to work though with drivers
