Jonny
Thanks for the post. I have a sandisk 1GB and was po'd that my win 98
machine would not see it. Now I know why. Luckily I have an ME system that
reads it. I use the 1GB wo get files and transfer them to a 256 which the win
98 reads if I need to go to that machine.
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Thanks John


"Jonny" wrote:

Not bootable. Windows Explorer did the copy system files okay though via
boot manager.

Was freezing on shutdown the first couple of times, went away by "magic"
with the flash drive attached. The safely remove hardware icon doesn't
appear in the system tray like in ME for this device. Does for my firewire
external drive though, so I know that part works here.

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Jonny
"Jonny" wrote in message
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Been putting off buying thumb drive for all the stuff I've seen in the
past
in this and other newsgroups. My brother told me about a special deal,
rebate on the 1GB version of subject at Radio Shack he found a few months
ago. They didn't have the local rebate, but Office Depot across the
street
did. 29 and change after OD at register rebate and Sandisk mail in
rebate.

Here's what I found. Doesn't work with 98 period. Requires a special
driver from sandisk.com for 98SE. After installing the driver, then
rebooting, nothing found but a D: and E: drive with no response error.
Looked in device manager, Flashdrive was not assigned drive letter "W:".
Did that, and rebooted. Found flashdrive, but D: and E: remained and
unresponsive.
Looked in Sandisk site's help/support site, nothing but what I just did
regarding assigning a drive letter. Realized that my boot manager also
had
"?" for bootable drives. Disabled USB mouse support in bios (USB keyboard
support was disabled), may be USB legacy support in some bios. It worked,
no D: or E: added and unresponsive. Windows Millenium Edition also had
the
same added drive letter problem and was fixed along with 98SE at the same
time. ME required no drivers.

Thought some may find this helpful.

Haven't booted XP Home Edition SP2 yet, but expect no problems at this
point.

Believe the USB flash mini drive is bootable BTW with USB legacy support
enabled in bios. Let you know.
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Jonny