WINDOWS 98 USB SUPPORT DRIVERS
WINDOWS 98 USB SUPPORT DRIVER
WINDOWS 98 USB SUPPORT SOFTWARE

I never planned to run the GUI of Win98 with that, nor would I ever want to do so in future. NOTE: When I meant 'Windows 98' I actually meant DOS7 that comes with it. And Rufus will happily create a DOS bootable disk for you. Why on earth would you want to use Win98 for DOS based tools? Win98 is NOT the perfect choice for flashing BIOSes. There is such thing as prioritization and not trying to add every single possible feature under the sun.īesides, you do realize that Rufus does allow you to create either a FreeDOS or MS-DOS boot disk to run your DOS flash tools.

WINDOWS 98 USB SUPPORT SOFTWARE

Plus, the error message couldn't be any more cryptic tech lingo.Īnd I can't believe that some people don't understand that developers who aren't paid for it, and provide software absolutely for free, don't want to waste their limited spare time supporting an Operating System that is completely obsolete by now, instead of using that same time to, say, improve accessibility for visually impaired persons, something that will benefit a lot more people than the dozen or so people who, in 2015, think that using Windows 98 is a good choice. I can't believe that Rufus and its author like to block this important functionality just by stubbornly relying on their stupid WinPE thing.Īnd please excuse the tone, but I've already wasted more than half a hour because of this for nothing.

I've also scoured the net about this and dozens of users have run into this issue, ending up with manually copying 98/98SE or using other tools. Rufus is a great tool pointing in the very right direction - but when it comes to 98/98SE, you will try in vain. Would there be any way to convince Rufus to write Win98/Win98SE to a pen drive? Consider that most of the flashing tools themselves are for DOS. Still, Win98/Win98SE still ARE the perfect choice for flashing BIOSes etc. WinPE is mainly used for XP/7/Vista/8 but not for Win98/Win98SE. Rufus will always complain that the ISO is neither based of winpe/bootmgr nor ISOLINUX. (I even became a forum member to reply to you.Well, I've tried so many of them now, but Rufus simple does not accept them. Anyway it your solution worked like a charm. I figured I couldn't call Dell since it wasn't a Dell device.

Unfortunately, other people may not have my limited knowledge.

WINDOWS 98 USB SUPPORT DRIVER

Fortunately, I was intelligent enough to figure out it was a driver problem. I could not get the PNY Flash Drive to work either.

WINDOWS 98 USB SUPPORT DRIVERS

The Lexar site is: - and I picked Win98 SE, USB JumpDrive 1.0.įinal thought, I think Dell should have provided drivers for Win 98 on the CD's that come with a new system, even though the new system is Win XP, the whole purpose of the USB key is to transfer data, and it's very likely that data would be transfered to and from other systems which do not operate in Win XP. As an added bonus, the Lexar provides a 'wizard' type installation that works like a charm - no need to get into technicalities. Then, after reading that my Dell USB key is in fact a Lexar JumpDrive, I went to the Lexar Media site, and downloaded the drivers for Win 98, and it worked. I tried installing the Windows 98 drivers off the Dell site (Zip file) for the Dell USB key on my Win 98 computer without success.

Windows 98 usb support