You need DRIVERS for the USB Flash drives
that are for the OS (Win95)
I see some that are for "plain" Win98,
but most are only rated for Win98SE and above.
The MB ports have to be able to use the drive also,
but the OS needs those drivers. (They are built-in
to Win-XP generally...)
Rick glazier
From: "Lewis c Emerson"
Subject: USB port question
> I'm using an old machine with an Intel 166 MHz P5 and running Windows-95.
> The USB ports will not recognize either of my two Flash Drives. I'm
> guessing that this is because these are compatible with USB ports 2.0 and
> the machine most probably can handle only USB hardware version 1.0. I'm
> not sure if I've stated this correctly, but maybe well enuf' to be
> understood. Is there an adaptor available or anything I can do to enable
> my old machine accept these new Flash Drives?
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