Any USB drives compatible with Windows 95?

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Davis Goertzen

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Hello,

The title pretty much says it. I'm wondering if there are any USB jumpdrives that will work with a Windows 95 computer. I would like to transfer some files from a fairly old Windows 95 machine to my Windows 2000, so that I can back them up to CD. If it helps you any, the Windows 95 machine has a 1.96 Gb hard drive, 32Mb RAM, and a Pentium processor; but it does have USB ports at the back of it. I'm wondering if there are any jumpdrives compatible with something this old, because for stuff that I've bought in the last couple years, the oldest operating system they'd work with was Windows 98SE. If this thread needs to be put into a different category, I'd be happy to do that; this was just the closest one that I found. Thanks in advance.

Davis Goertzen
 
I'm pretty sure any Windows 98 drivers would work with 95. But if all else fails, just slave the drive from the 95 system in your newer system :P
 
The_Other_One said:
I'm pretty sure any Windows 98 drivers would work with 95. But if all else fails, just slave the drive from the 95 system in your newer system :P
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Thanks for the prompt reply, but you sort of lost me both times.:confused:

Would I download the Windows 98SE drivers from the Internet?

And, just how do I go about "slaving the drive from the 95 in my newer system"?

I'm quite unfamiliar with doing anything remotely like that. I don't have much experience at all with this sort of thing. As before, thanks for the help.

Davis Goertzen
 
I found the drivers for the jumpdrive and downloaded them, but out of maybe a dozen times that I inserted my jumpdrive, the old computer detected it twice. So, if it won't even detect it, I can't even try to install it with the drivers I have, let alone use it. It's somewhat frustrating.

Davis
 
To slave the old drive (what i did with my old Pentium rig with Win95) you have to physically remove the hard driver from the old computer and put it in a newer one.
 
He probably still doesn't know what you are talking about, and what does slaving a old hard drive with a new one have to do with a jumpdrive. Transferring the files from his old computer like that is gonna be too much of a hassle and how are you gonna go about doing that if the hard disk is too large to be supported. You can try a network share does your windows 95 machine have access to the internet or maybe you can send them as a email if theres not to much info.
 
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Thanks Jiffyman, I think I sort have an idea what slaving the hard drive would mean. However, if I were to go that route, I would have to make sure of two things that I don't know yet. These are: is the hard drive from the Windows 95 machine compatible with my Windows 2000 Pro; and can my machine (IBM NetVista 6790 DRU) handle two hard drives in it at the same time? Because the Windows 95 machine won't even acknowledge my jumpdrive; so, if I replaced the hard drive in my newer computer with the old hard drive, I wouldn't be any farther ahead, would I? But if my machine could handle both hard drives in it at the same time, from what I'm thinking, I'd pretty well have it made.

Thanks also for the idea of emailing the documents but that really isn't an option for me because my internet connection, which is dial-up, is 28.8 Kbps, so any emailing would take a terrifically long time. But if I had high-speed internet, that would probably work.

Anyone feel free to correct me here if I'm mistaken about something. Thanks for all the input.

Davis Goertzen
 
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To my knowledge, Windows 95C is the only one with USB support.

Next, your best bet is either to slave the drive or you could slap in temporary, a burner with the burning software.
 
Mom and Dad were told that the old machine was too slow for a CD burner. Is a Zip drive, through the parallel port, a viable option?

I'll try to find out if I would be able to slave the drive.

Thanks

Davis
 
It's possible, yes.

Too slow machine? Jeese, that's an old 100MHZ CPU or something?

It's impossible to have a too slow machine. A too high end program, yes. I'd recommend you freeware from www.oldapps.com

If that URL is a 404, I'll check for the good URL.
 
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