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USB flashdrive + windows ME?

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poncherelli2

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I have a laptop with windows ME loaded on it and the floppy drive is busted. There is no ethernet and no cd burner. The laptop basically has microsoft office and a dvd player on it. I want to know if winME recognizes usb keys as drives or if I need to install drivers. I just want to be able to take office files on and off teh computer and this seems like the logical way.
 
thanks. The laptop is very old and the lack of ethernet is actually kind of a good thing. Its for my sister and will reliably run office apps and she wont be able to kill the machine with spyware. I have a usb-ethernet adapter I may add, but I cant at the moment since I cant load teh driver floppy.
 
It should work fine, but some drives need a driver installed first to recognize them (I know Win98SE does). I don't know, because I've never come within 100 feet of a WinME machine 😛 .
 
I know 2000 you have to install drivers in order to get it to work.

ME, I'm not sure as I only used it for a grand total of five minutes and then decided that it was a waste of time.
 
Originally posted by: geforcetony
It should work fine, but some drives need a driver installed first to recognize them (I know Win98SE does). I don't know, because I've never come within 100 feet of a WinME machine 😛 .
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Agreed. I've had to install drivers to get Win98 to recognize a couple of different USB drives. If I'm not mistaken WinME was built on the Win98 Kernel.
 
Originally posted by: Richard98
If I'm not mistaken WinME was built on the Win98 Kernel.
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Yes, essentially ME is 98 with virtually all DOS stripped out of it. That's why its so buggy and crash-prone. They were trying to make it more like Win2000, but it failed. That's why we have XP 😉 .
 
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