Is there a flash drive out there that's compatiable with 98SE and ME?

Question

I can't find the driver that will make the flash drive I have work with 98SE. I would like to transfer data this way between computers.

Answer 1

Just about any brand of USB pen drive device driver should work. Try this one:

http://www.sandisk.com/Assets/File/Downloads/USBFlashDrives/cruzer_family/Cruzer_Family_98SE.zip

Answer 2

Digitex Pen Drive, Luwen EasyDisk and Transcend USB Flash Drive
By Andrei Kozhemyako
The number of compact USB flash drives keeps on growing. A year ago a user was offered only two devices which had a lot of drawbacks. Today we can choose among 10 models which work much faster than the first generation, do not require installation of drivers in modern operating systems and can easily satisfy users as to dimensions, colors and ways of wearing. Besides, the flash memory chips have "outgrown" the USB 1.1 standard, which means that soon we will witness a new competition among the manufacturers with their high-speed USB 2.0 and FireWire models.

But this will be later, and today I'm going to examine three devices with the USB 1.1 interface. Two of them are not new, we just didn't have enough time to test them earlier, and the Luwen's solution is a modification of the older one.

A couple of words on the testing technique. Despite some problems with the HD Tach revealed last time in the EasyDisk test, nothing has changed because there are no alternatives. The ZD Winbench 99 measures only a read speed and access time which is not enough: a write speed is also very important. Besides, I'm worried about the diagrams of reading for the USB devices - such graphs are abnormal even for hard drives, not to mention the flash memory. But this time I tested all the devices with both programs - and the access times defined by them were identical (WinBench and HD Tach), and the read speed in the WinBench is equal to the maximum (not average) obtained with the HD Tach. That is why the WinBench results won't be shown. As to copying of real files, first of all, the results are easy to predict (if we know an access time and read and write speeds) and secondly, almost irreproducible (thanks to Windows and its unnatural intellect :)), that is why it doesn't make sense to pay attention to them. So, I didn't copy files: I had a set of over 1,000 small files and a big one (about 30 MBytes both), but it didn't bring anything significant, and I failed to obtain the same copying time twice (despite my attempts to get the same conditions and disabled caching), that is why you won't see these results either.

Answer 3

You should be able to go to the flash drive mfg website and download it!