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Sandisk mini flash drive
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. -- Jonny |
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Sandisk mini flash drive
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. -- Jonny "Jonny" wrote in message ... 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. -- Jonny |
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Sandisk mini flash drive
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. -- 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. -- Jonny "Jonny" wrote in message ... 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. -- Jonny |
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