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Old November 8th 05, 08:33 PM
bartman
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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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Old November 8th 05, 11:36 PM
Richard G. Harper
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Check with the manufacturer of the flash drive for either Windows 98 drivers
or for instructions on how to install the drivers you have.

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"bartman" wrote in message
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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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