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Old December 9th 06, 11:38 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Justin Thyme
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Default SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB Flash Drive

Hello,

I bought this subject flash drive because the price was right and it was
something I wanted to store pictures on. The back of the package says that
it is for Operating System(s) 2000 and XP, although the SanDisk website says
it is for Windows Me as well. Has anyone here had experience using this
device? If I can't use it I can make a Christmas present of it to someone
in my family.

Thanks,

Ken Bland


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Old December 10th 06, 12:32 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Mart
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Default SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB Flash Drive

Ken, FWIW, I have a SanDisk Cruzer *Mini* Flash Drive - amongst a number of
assorted 'flash or 'pen' drives - which I use between XP and WinMe machines
without any particular issues either on USB 1.x or USB 2.0. I had no trouble
installing it (them!) on either OS and IIRC there were some software
utilities supplied on the SanDisk drive which *may* have included WinMe
drivers (Can't remember as I deleted the utils, as they are available on
their web site.)

HTH

Mart


"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
...
Hello,

I bought this subject flash drive because the price was right and it was
something I wanted to store pictures on. The back of the package says
that
it is for Operating System(s) 2000 and XP, although the SanDisk website
says
it is for Windows Me as well. Has anyone here had experience using this
device? If I can't use it I can make a Christmas present of it to someone
in my family.

Thanks,

Ken Bland




  #3  
Old December 10th 06, 08:32 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Mart
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Default SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB Flash Drive - adendum

Ken, on further reflection, drivers are only required for Win98SE. WinMe has
its own drivers and auto-detects flash/pen drives - although their behaviour
is slightly different (eject/remove procedure) compared to when connected to
XP.

Mart


"Mart" wrote in message
...
Ken, FWIW, I have a SanDisk Cruzer *Mini* Flash Drive - amongst a number
of assorted 'flash or 'pen' drives - which I use between XP and WinMe
machines without any particular issues either on USB 1.x or USB 2.0. I had
no trouble installing it (them!) on either OS and IIRC there were some
software utilities supplied on the SanDisk drive which *may* have included
WinMe drivers (Can't remember as I deleted the utils, as they are
available on their web site.)

HTH

Mart


"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
...
Hello,

I bought this subject flash drive because the price was right and it was
something I wanted to store pictures on. The back of the package says
that
it is for Operating System(s) 2000 and XP, although the SanDisk website
says
it is for Windows Me as well. Has anyone here had experience using this
device? If I can't use it I can make a Christmas present of it to
someone
in my family.

Thanks,

Ken Bland






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Old December 10th 06, 11:54 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Richard G. Harper
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Default SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB Flash Drive

The drive itself should work under WindowsMe just fine, but the U3 software
that comes on it may not be WinMe compatible - which I consider a Good
Thing. ;-)

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"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
...
Hello,

I bought this subject flash drive because the price was right and it was
something I wanted to store pictures on. The back of the package says
that
it is for Operating System(s) 2000 and XP, although the SanDisk website
says
it is for Windows Me as well. Has anyone here had experience using this
device? If I can't use it I can make a Christmas present of it to someone
in my family.

Thanks,

Ken Bland




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Old December 10th 06, 11:21 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Justin Thyme
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Default SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB Flash Drive

Thanks to you, Richard, and to you, Mart.

While reading up about this particular drive on a "comments" board I came to
the conclusion that a lot of people objected, and very strongly, to the U3
software. In fact, the U3 website now furnishes, albeit begrudgingly, a
link (www.u3.com/uninstall) for deleting the software. (I say
"begrudgingly" because the topmost caveat on the page says something like:
"WAIT, are you sure you want to remove this helpful, etc., etc..." and
doesn't provide the uninstall option until the very bottom. And I think it
goes on to say that the feature cannot be reinstalled after removal.)

I appreciate greatly your comments that I can safely use this flash drive on
my Millennium machine.

Ken Bland


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Old December 11th 06, 11:23 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Richard G. Harper
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Default SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB Flash Drive

You're welcome.

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* NEW! Catch my blog ...
http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
* PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
* The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/
* HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
...
Thanks to you, Richard, and to you, Mart.

While reading up about this particular drive on a "comments" board I came
to
the conclusion that a lot of people objected, and very strongly, to the U3
software. In fact, the U3 website now furnishes, albeit begrudgingly, a
link (www.u3.com/uninstall) for deleting the software. (I say
"begrudgingly" because the topmost caveat on the page says something like:
"WAIT, are you sure you want to remove this helpful, etc., etc..." and
doesn't provide the uninstall option until the very bottom. And I think
it
goes on to say that the feature cannot be reinstalled after removal.)

I appreciate greatly your comments that I can safely use this flash drive
on
my Millennium machine.

Ken Bland




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Old December 11th 06, 05:13 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsme.general
Jack E Martinelli
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Default SanDisk Cruzer Micro USB Flash Drive

I recently purchased a Memorex 1 GB, U3 Smart, USB 2.0 "travel" drive (for
$US 20.00) and it works fine on two WinME machines here, moving 35 MB of
Quicken files between machines. Very fast.
I have not used the U3 featu http://www.u3.com/

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"Justin Thyme" wrote in message
...
Thanks to you, Richard, and to you, Mart.

While reading up about this particular drive on a "comments" board I came

to
the conclusion that a lot of people objected, and very strongly, to the U3
software. In fact, the U3 website now furnishes, albeit begrudgingly, a
link (www.u3.com/uninstall) for deleting the software. (I say
"begrudgingly" because the topmost caveat on the page says something like:
"WAIT, are you sure you want to remove this helpful, etc., etc..." and
doesn't provide the uninstall option until the very bottom. And I think

it
goes on to say that the feature cannot be reinstalled after removal.)

I appreciate greatly your comments that I can safely use this flash drive

on
my Millennium machine.

Ken Bland



 




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