shanenin Posted March 28, 2006 Report Share Posted March 28, 2006 I just bought a 1gb 2.0 kingston usb flash drive. It says on the package it is compatible with 98se, 2000, xp. It specifically says it is not compatible with ME. I have never heard of such a thing, why would it say that?As to 98 first edition, will it work if I install drivers? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxkbxx Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 I just bought a 1gb 2.0 kingston usb flash drive. It says on the package it is compatible with 98se, 2000, xp. It specifically says it is not compatible with ME. I have never heard of such a thing, why would it say that?As to 98 first edition, will it work if I install drivers?I'm doubtful on Windows 98 - it may work with the driversME will work for sure - it's pretty much Windows 98SE with built in driver support - most things that are 98SE compatible are also for ME Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted March 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 why would it say specifically win nt, win 95, and win me not supported Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxkbxx Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 why would it say specifically win nt, win 95, and win me not supportedI can understand 95 and NT, but I really think it'll work with ME since it does with 98SE through XPWorst comes to worst - just give it a whirl! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 I just went to Kingston's site and all of their flash drives are supported in Win98SE/ME/2K/XP. They are not supported in Win95/98FE/NT (non USB supported OSes). Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxkbxx Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 I just went to Kingston's site and all of their flash drives are supported in Win98SE/ME/2K/XP. They are not supported in Win95/98FE/NT (non USB supported OSes).That sounds more like it - considering ME is like 98SE's updated clone Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxkbxx Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 I just went to Kingston's site and all of their flash drives are supported in Win98SE/ME/2K/XP. They are not supported in Win95/98FE/NT (non USB supported OSes).That sounds more like it - considering ME is like 98SE's updated clone Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bearskin Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 all flash drives will work with winme...98 if you load the drivers...nt doesn't have usb support. I do have a file that gives nt4.0 usb support and the flash should work then. if I had access to my nt4.0 machine I would try that to be sure. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted March 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 My best sence tells me the drive should work just fine in ME. I do not understand why on the pachaging it specifcally says ME is not supported. That is why I thouhjgt that was strnge. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
shanenin Posted March 29, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 I think all of the kingston documentation is inaccurate. I found this page on thier site that says only win 2000 and xp are compatible. That is obviously wronghttp://www.kingston.com/flash/datatraveler.asp?id=8 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 At support they stated the drives do work. It seems they should be backward compatible to USB 1.1. If it doesn't work return it and find a brand that will work with all OSes and USB. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rhema7 Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 My best sence tells me the drive should work just fine in ME. I do not understand why on the pachaging it specifcally says ME is not supported. That is why I thouhjgt that was strnge. To compare ME to 98SE is an atrosity. ME was a half backed OS that M$ id trying yo forget about. ME was ment to be a home version of Win 2000.Preston Quote Link to post Share on other sites
xxkbxx Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 My best sence tells me the drive should work just fine in ME. I do not understand why on the pachaging it specifcally says ME is not supported. That is why I thouhjgt that was strnge. To compare ME to 98SE is an atrosity. ME was a half backed OS that M$ id trying yo forget about. ME was ment to be a home version of Win 2000.PrestonSorry Terrorist - I didn't mean to compare 98SE to ME as far as quality (I hate ME, the ONLY benefit of ME over 98SE that I've ever noticed is increased driver support) My connection to the two OS's was ME being intended to be an upgrade of 98. How's your progress in XP coming along anyways? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted March 29, 2006 Report Share Posted March 29, 2006 My best sence tells me the drive should work just fine in ME. I do not understand why on the pachaging it specifcally says ME is not supported. That is why I thouhjgt that was strnge. To compare ME to 98SE is an atrosity. ME was a half backed OS that M$ id trying yo forget about. ME was ment to be a home version of Win 2000.PrestonSorry Terrorist - I didn't mean to compare 98SE to ME as far as quality (I hate ME, the ONLY benefit of ME over 98SE that I've ever noticed is increased driver support) My connection to the two OS's was ME being intended to be an upgrade of 98. How's your progress in XP coming along anyways?That was rhema7 dissing ME. I personally never had a problem with ME on any computer that I owned with it installed from the factory. I did prefer 98SE over ME though. I have XP running quite well, knock on wood. I had a couple of minor problems within the first few days but that was due to bad installs of software. I tried to force them to go where I wanted and XP took exception to this. I figured out the quirk and System Restore saved my butt. I created custom restore points for each move I made just in case this happened. XP is not as forgiving like 98SE. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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