IIRC, common flavors of Win95 didn't even support USB, so you are probably
not going to be able to use the flash drives on that computer.
At 08:54 PM 2/6/2006, you wrote:
>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?
>
>Russ Poffenberger
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