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This is certainly possible with third-party software. Sometimes it also helps if you set USB support in the BIOS (some BIOSes have multiple support settings for USB keyboards and drives I encountered once that wrong settings was messing up USB usage in Windows 9x).Īlso do not forget that you can use only FAT16/FAT32 formats. Such a configuration usually made workable a lot of no-name USB drives too (not just PQI).

#Windows 98 usb input drivers how to

You can find those in here How to patch binaries in DOS? look for MS-DOS (g)mouse and w9x USB stuff link.

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PQI_TravelDisk drivers (these are the vendor drivers for my flash mentioned above).

#Windows 98 usb input drivers driver

In your case, I would first try the on-board USB 1.1 ports and look for a USB flash drive driver and also for compatible USB key that works. You can also use a network to copy stuff (COM/LPT LAPLINK/INTERLING or file sharing with TCP/IP LAN).

So you use one such adapter in your old computer and in the new one you just need a card reader, or another adapter if PATA is still an option. Old game consoles and some laptops use them instead of real HDDs. You just use the CF card as a removable Hard drive. If nothing works, there are also different alternatives like CF/IDE adapters (really just a few connectors) like this one:

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I still have my ancient Windows 9x compliant PQI Travel Disk (128 MByte USB Flash + SD card reader) working, so in case I need to transfer large amount of data to an old PC being repaired, I usually use its SD card reader as it supports cards up to 2GB and I still have some. Some of the newer USB drives still work with Windows 9x (usually those no-names 1-4 GByte). The USB drives usually work in USB 1.1 ports too without any problems (apart the speed). But not many manufacturers provided them, limiting usable USB drives. At the moment, however, floppy disks are the only thing working perfectly for me.īack in the days of Windows 9x, the USB drives needed a special driver from their manufacturers (usually on small ~200 MByte format CD).

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I have a feeling I may need to do trial and error to get the right drivers, and given the capacity of a floppy disk that route would not really be practical. My main reason for needing USB 2.0 support is so I can load drivers onto a flash drive and transfer them to the Windows 98 computer to load drivers for the modem. What else could I do to get my Windows 98 SE PC to work with USB flash drives? Do I just need drivers, or is some other change required?

I am following the procedures available online for getting Windows 98 to work with USB 2.0. I extracted the files for the second driver but I found just a bunch of '.sys' files. I'm not so sure though, given my problems so far. I believe someone is getting an external US Robotics 56k modem for me on eBay at the moment, and my hunch is external modems are more reliable than internal modems so that one may work more seamlessly. This wouldn't be as important if I could get one of the modems to work, but right now neither is working. I have nothing against floppy disks, really, but being able to use USB flash drives would be far more practical. But when I plugged a flash drive in again, the Add New Hardware Wizard no longer opened automatically, and the flash drive was still not recognized in my computer.

I then loaded the floppy disk and manually ran the. To test it out, I plugged a flash drive into the computer and the Add New Hardware Wizard opened and prompted for drivers. I loaded the following drivers onto a floppy disk, and brought it home: I have a PS/2 keyboard and mouse so flash drives here are my main concern. My research shows that there are third-party drivers available that allow Windows 98 SE to work with USB 2.0 devices including flash drives. The problem is, since this computer is 20+ years old, it only works with USB 1.1. I thought perhaps maybe I didn't have the right drivers, so I decided to load some on. Nowhere in the system was either the NIC or the second modem recognized.

I ran the wizard but it didn't detect any new hardware. The 'Add New Hardware' wizard did not open by default. It didn't boot the first time but I cycled the power and it booted up fine, more or less. I had a Dell Dimension 8200 laying around that had Windows XP, so I opened it up and took out its internal modem, and the NIC, for good measure. The modem shows up in certain system dialogs but none of the dialers - HyperTerminal, Phone Dialer, etc. I recently tried using the internal modem on the computer - a 56k Compaq modem - for the first time. It's been handed down a few times, and I don't recollect it ever being online but it does have a version of Firefox from 2007 so I could be wrong about that. I have a Compaq desktop computer running Windows 98 SE.