On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote: > > 3.1.1, IIRC > Nope, 3.11. > I did. It was better than 95, and better than 98 first edition. > I was making a joke about WfW screaming. > USB drives should work without any problem at all, assuming he is using 98SE. > No, the newer generation drives, mostly 1GB and up, explicitly do not have drivers for 98SE at all. In theory, one could tweak a pre-existing driver to handle the extra memory, but in fact, a Kingston 1GB drive will not work with 98SE. That's the beauty of Windows.... > They didn't work in 98 first edition, nor in NT4 or Win2000 - again, from > memory, which could be faulty. > In Win2k, Micro$oft finally got up to speed and most flash drives will work with it, but XP is better. mhr