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by billkimnc

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I just bought a brand new Dell, but am upgrading from a Windows 98 HP

I need a driver for an Olympus W-100 flash drive to transfer my data files.

Or suggestions for another way to transfer files (and programs?)

HELP

Bill

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by 1bn0

If you're technically inclined, you could connect the drive to your new system as a secondary drive. The CD/DVD drive is probably on an IDE link. I would expect a win98 machine to be IDE as well.

To avoid any conflicts,disconnect the CD/DVD drive and place the W98 drive there instead.
(i'm hoping the CD/dvd drive is the only drive on that cable, if not you need to make sure the master slave configuration is correct.

If all this sounds like more trouble than you are prepared to deal with, then I would suggest you buy an external USB/IDE drive case, mount the W98 drive in it and connect the unit to your new machines USB port.

http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=1204&

When you reboot you should see the W98 drive in exlore and be able to copy the files to your new machines drive.

by thechas

Many second generation, and most USB 2.0 flash drives will not work with the older hardware in the average W98 PC.

You should be able to get things to work if you install a USB 2.0 card in the W98 PC.

Alternately, I would use a USB data transfer cable.

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=BF-100C&cat=NET

If all you need to transfer over are data files, you could install the drive from your old system as a slave or secondary drive in the Dell.

Or, even use a USB external drive case and temporarily connect the drive to the Dell that way.

Chas

by billkimnc

I am not technical enough for either of those suggestions, but thank you for the suggestion.

I just wanted to find a driver I could download for a flash drive on Windows 98.

Its not really that much stuff.

Thanks again.

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