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USB Support for Win NT4

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by pounder_arthur9 1 view

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Hi,
Does anyone know where I can obtain the USB drivers for Win NT4 ...

The most important ...
Iomega USB zip drive
Compaq IPAQ PDA

Please feel free to e-mail me direct

Thank you

Arthur

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by "doctor"

NT has never supported USB and there are no plans to add that support in the future.

Someone may be making 4.0 drivers but the OS does not support the interface much less drivers.

by jamesrl

I know for example that Iomega did and perhaps still does make USB drivers for NT4 to make their USB based products work.

However there is no guarentee that these drivers will work with other USB drivers or even co-exist with other hardware properly.

You pays your money, you takes your chance.

You would be better off to upgrade to Win2K which supports USB within the OS.

James

by jamesrl

As I said, the OS doesn't have native USB support, but others offer drivers for USB devices for NT 4.0.

If you don't believe me, check out www.iomega.com as one example.

This is not to say I endorse such drivers, I have heard of people having problems when they apply new service pacs for example.

But they do exist.

I don't mind people not knowing everything. I certainly don't know everything technical out there. But to be dogmatic about asserting the "I'm right, you're wrong" thing is pretty petty.

James

by pounder_arthur9

Thank you for your support & answers ... sadly the customer was attempting to run an IPAQ using his USB port ... although all manuals & documentation states that there is no support in NT4 for USB, I did not know if anyone knew of any other answers ...
Thank you
Arthur

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