Dan Posted February 7, 2005 Report Share Posted February 7, 2005 Ok, I got an external CD burner. It is a Samsung SW-252 in a case that converts it to a USB cable. I'm running windows 98SE and when I plug it in, turn it on; It doesn't recognize it.Any help?Thanks,dk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
screi Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 have you loaded the usb drivers for it...? it's been a while but i seem to remember that 98se took some specific steps to successfully load usb device drivers...also does the new cd burner support 98...?? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dan Posted February 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 Yes, on the box it says that it supports 98. I don't know how to load the usb drivers for it. On the box it said that it supported plug & play on 2k and XP, but it will work with 98.Hmm...dk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
screi Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 perhaps a visit to samsung's website is in order..?? are there no instructions for usb device drivers in the operating manual.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
murtu52 Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 perhaps a visit to samsung's website is in order..?? are there no instructions for usb device drivers in the operating manual.. That'll be the best bet. Go look on Samsungs website for drivers, but becareful: Drivers are tricky things. I realized that when I tried to set up my Wireless-B card for my laptop when i installed Windows 2000..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dan Posted February 8, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 Umm...I checked there already. There are NO drivers avalible for the device. Also, there is no manual.dk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
screi Posted February 8, 2005 Report Share Posted February 8, 2005 Umm...I checked there already. There are NO drivers avalible for the device. Also, there is no manual.dk where'd you buy this...at a flea market..?? everthing i see on google shows this as an internal drive...??are you trying to "convert" this in some way..??i think you need to be more specific about what you've got..and what you're trying to do.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dan Posted February 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2005 Guess what! I bought this at micro center. This drive in incased in an IDE, and all the crap associated with that, into a USB cable. Well, I found a disk in the box which said : "USB2.0 Storage Series". On the disk was a driver for USB 2.0 HDD Enclosure. Apparently, that was the one that I needed.But the driver doesn't install, just loads up for 15 min. and then windows recognizes it.So now I have everything working! YAY. dk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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