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USB Flash Drive
Hi I bought a USB flash pen drive. Having Win 98 I had to install the drivers
first and restart the PC before I could connect up the device. After doing so the standard dialog box opened saying Windows detected a new device and wanted the drivers for it. The default file location for finding the driver on the C: drive was c:\windows\system32\drivers. But after searching here the driver wasn't found. I therefore expanded the search to the whole C: drive. The driver still couldn't be found. I uninstalled everything and reinstalled and still nothing, and now the device whilst still registering in the Device Manager window (with a yellow exclamation box) doesn't open up the detected new hardware dialog box when I connect up the device. So I went exploring on the supplied Driver CD to find the driver. I found a Winzip file called data1.cab. I was pretty sure the driver was here. When I tried to extract it I get a dialog box saying Winzip can't open the file because its not in the standard Microsoft CAB format ( as defined as mid 1998). The "signature bytes" required by the Microsoft CAB specification are missing. Now this issue might be related or might not be related but could it be that if I can't extract the file, then maybe the computer can't either. The only thing is that the installation setup window said that the installation of the driver was fine with no issues. Where is this driver? Can anyone help? Thanks a lot. |
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USB Flash Drive
Check with the manufacturer of the flash drive for either Windows 98 drivers
or for instructions on how to install the drivers you have. -- Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to. * My website, such as it is ... http://rgharper.mvps.org/ * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "bartman" wrote in message ... Hi I bought a USB flash pen drive. Having Win 98 I had to install the drivers first and restart the PC before I could connect up the device. After doing so the standard dialog box opened saying Windows detected a new device and wanted the drivers for it. The default file location for finding the driver on the C: drive was c:\windows\system32\drivers. But after searching here the driver wasn't found. I therefore expanded the search to the whole C: drive. The driver still couldn't be found. I uninstalled everything and reinstalled and still nothing, and now the device whilst still registering in the Device Manager window (with a yellow exclamation box) doesn't open up the detected new hardware dialog box when I connect up the device. So I went exploring on the supplied Driver CD to find the driver. I found a Winzip file called data1.cab. I was pretty sure the driver was here. When I tried to extract it I get a dialog box saying Winzip can't open the file because its not in the standard Microsoft CAB format ( as defined as mid 1998). The "signature bytes" required by the Microsoft CAB specification are missing. Now this issue might be related or might not be related but could it be that if I can't extract the file, then maybe the computer can't either. The only thing is that the installation setup window said that the installation of the driver was fine with no issues. Where is this driver? Can anyone help? Thanks a lot. |
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