Cindy Sanderson wrote:

>Hi List,
>
>I recently bought a Memorex USB 128MB ThumbDrive and can't get it to
>work.  In My Computer the driver letter for it doesn't show up and in
>Windows Explorer the drive doesn't show up either but under Device
>Manager under Disk Drives, it shows simply as "Disk Drive" and shows it
>to be a removable device on drive E.  I called Technical Service at
>Memorex and he tells me the device is working fine because under Start,
>Run and I type E: then a box for an E drive pops up.  That told him I
>have a problem with Windows but he couldn't say what kind of a problem or
>give me any hints or suggestions.  I am running Win98.  Any ideas here?
>
>I would have a hard time reloading Windows because my CD drive isn't
>working right (previous post to which I never got any answers).  Whenever
>I try to use a CD, it runs for a short time then my monitor screen goes
>black and the CD stops spinning.  I used to get an "Out of Scan Range"
>message but I have since bought a new LCD flat screen and now the monitor
>just goes black.  Pressing the space bar will bring it back but some
>files do not end up getting loaded on the computer.  Any help would be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>I originally posted this to PCSoft but they told me to post it here.  I
>figured since the problem seems to be with Windows then it was a software
>question but guess not.
>
>Thanks
>
>Cindy Sanderson
>
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I use win98se also and purchased a 512MB Jumpdrive Pro. But I couldn't
get it to load the driver properly, and everytime I plugged it in I had
problems within a few minutes with the blue screen of death. I bought a
16 MB unit and it worked fine. I bought a 64 MB unit and had to download
a win98 driver but that unit also worked fine. But my 512MB Jumpdrive
Pro (for USB 2.0) always gave me problems. So maybe the driver for your
128 isn't really great with your system or perhaps if it is a USB 2.0
thumbdrive, it doesn't really like USB 1.1 (which it what a win98se
system usually uses).

Just my two cents worth of recent experience.

Jean Bourvic

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