Installing pen drives into DOS and '97 2

[Bobby2004]

I have repeatedly tried to install my JetFlash 128 MB pen drive in DOS without any success. After going through numerous Web pages,

I came to the conclusion that the Panasonic driver combined with the "Mottu Hairu" driver might be the best bet. Accordingly I have

included the following lines in my config.sys ( after downloading and placing the driver files in the root directory of my DOS boot drive

viz. a:\ ):

device=usbaspi.sys
device=di1000dd.sys

however the drive is not getting recognized. I get the error messages:

Target USB device not found

from the first driver and

ASPI Manager not installed

from the second one.

The physical aspects all have to be fine because I am getting the drive in W2KP.

On Windows 97 ( i.e. Windows 95 revision B ), I understand it has a built in driver for USB but the pen drive is still not being recognized.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[wolluf]

Bobby2004 - this is the win2k forum! You might try forum615 - but I think you're out of luck. Windows 95B does not have USB support. 95C, which may be what you have, has very limited USB support - very unlikely to work with a modern pen drive, even with the right drivers. When you say dos - do you mean 95's dos? (in which case, same problem as for 95 - earlier dos, no USB support). You need win98 minimum, I would think to support this device (with drivers in 98, should be natively in later o/s - like 2k, where you say it does work).

 

[Bobby2004]

Thanks for the response. However I do think this is not an inappropriate forum as Win2KP ( and all other Windows users such as myself ) have to resort to DOS in case all else fails and so DOS is a kind of an extention to all Windows ( I am taking of DOS 6.20 ). However I will post in the forum you suggest also.

 

[ImpetusEra]

That flash drive works in Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows Millennium, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. It will not work in 95 or DOS. Even trying to load 98 drivers in DOS won't work as there's there dependences that won't be available.

 

[Bobby2004]

What a pity! Can you spell out the "dependencies that wont be available"? How can I get a pen drive that works under all or at least 2000, '97 and DOS?

PS '97 is my rescue OS - I like it because it supports FAT32 but is still as small as '95.

 

[ImpetusEra]

Does the Transcend JetFlash Series support Windows 95 and Win NT?

Transcend JetFlash don`t support Windows 95 and Win NT operating systems. Since those operating systems are phased out, there aren`t any plans for support. All Transcend JetFlash work perfectly on the other Microsoft Operating Systems (Win 98SE/ME/2000/XP), later versions of Linux 2.4 and Mac 9.0.

That's what their site says about it. You can try contacting them to see what is involved in making it work with older operating systems but I doubt they will tell you anything beyond that it doesn't work and they don't offer support on it.

 

[jrbarnett]

USB drives on the early versions of Windows 95 and NT 4.0 won't work, simply because the operating system USB support is very limited (in 95 OSR2, non existent in previous versions and NT 4).
This applies to any make or model of USB key.

John

 

[Bobby2004]

Your'e both right but in a way only:
(1) DOS, and I suppose Windows, support *installable* device drivers, anyone who knows can write one. There's even one for reading NTFS from DOS!
(2) on the many Web pages I've seen on this topic, many state they have got thier flash disks recognized - unfortunately no one mentions pen drives. If it can work with flash disks why can't it work with pen drives.

 

[ImpetusEra]

[config.sys]
DOS=HIGH,UMB
lastdrive=Z
device=HIMEM.SYS
devicehigh=USBASPI.SYS /v /w /e
devicehigh=DI1000DD.SYS
devicehigh=USBCD.SYS /d:USBCD001

[autoexec.bat]
@echo off
LH MSCDEX /d:USBCD001

That didn't work for me. Have a look here and see if any of the solutions work.

http://www.bootdisk.com/usb.htm.

Since there isn't really any official support through the manufacturers there's no guarantee you'll ever get it to work.