Help! PC can't detect Thumb Drive!?

Question

I'm new to thumb drives.

According to the thumb drive's packaging box, it should work instantly with all computers and all OS types.

Not with me. When I plug in the thumb drive, the PC would say, 'new hardware detected - search for driver database etc, etc.' In the end, I end up with an unknown device and a big fat yellow question mark in the control panel.

I have tried reading web sites but they are all useless. They say 'please select drive letter for your thumb drive'. Heck, I cannot even select a drive letter! How do you do that? Even my BIOs cannot detect the thumb. The only thing that works is the thumb's little light.

I've even tried downloading drivers. Useless, again!

By the way, I use Windows 98SE. Also, my USB drivers already have drivers installed and they work properly (my USB modem works fine). And I don't have any viruses.

Answer 1

If you have an AMD processor, and the drivers are Viatech USB Host Controllers. you will need to install generic drivers for the USB Host Controller.

Answer 2

have seen a similar issue a lot lately, especially in an environment where network drives are used. What happens to our users a lot is that they'll use their thumb drive at home where it maps to F:, and then when they bring it to work it tries to map itself to F:, but F: is already in use. So Windows doesn't detect that and figure out that it should re-map it.

The fix in my case is to right click on My Computer, select Manage, and go into Disk Management to change the drive letter. I usually change it to Z: since that is the drive letter that is least likely to be used.

Answer 3

You need to download a driver from the mfg. web site. After installing the driver your thumb drive will load right up.

Answer 4

most thumb drives wont work in 98 se without a driver

Answer 5

try here

http://members.driverguide.com/ums/index.php?action=l&furl=aHR0cDovL21lbWJlcnMuZHJpdmVyZ3VpZGUuY29tL2luZGV4LnBocD8mYWN0aW9uPXdpemFyZF9zdGVwXzE%3D&ac=1163791372v946665