On Tuesday 02 September 2008 19:10:32 MHR wrote: > On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 3.1.1, IIRC > > Nope, 3.11. > You could be right. > > I did. It was better than 95, and better than 98 first edition. > > I was making a joke about WfW screaming. > > > USB drives should work without any problem at all, assuming he is using > > 98SE. > > No, the newer generation drives, mostly 1GB and up, explicitly do not > have drivers for 98SE at all. In theory, one could tweak a > pre-existing driver to handle the extra memory, but in fact, a > Kingston 1GB drive will not work with 98SE. That's the beauty of > Windows.... > Can't argue with you :-) It does seem likely, as 1GB flash drives wouldn't have been a possibility at that time. I never owned one at all until relatively recently. > > They didn't work in 98 first edition, nor in NT4 or Win2000 - again, from > > memory, which could be faulty. > > In Win2k, Micro$oft finally got up to speed and most flash drives > will work with it, but XP is better. > Fair enough. Out of curiosity - do they work in W2K out of the box, or require some update? I ask because I'm considering W2K as a VM. Anne
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