How to Make Almost Any Linux Compatible Usb Drive Work in Win98
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So you got that sexy 1GB flash drive for your antique PC at the Maxi-mini-mall. And you just plugged it in. And it didn't work, right? Here's how to fix that.
[edit] Steps
- Go to http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/usbmsd98.php and follow the instructions.
- Now, if that didn't get it to work: go into the freshly UnRAR'd folder(you did keep it, didn't you?) and sniff out USBSTOR.inf
- Open it in Notepad and look for your drive's vendor among the gibberish.
- If it's there, that saves you some work. If not... <sigh> you'll have to add it later.
- Boot into your liveCD and open a terminal window (Konsole).
- UNplug all your USB devices and plug in your drive.
- Type "lsusb -v"(without quotation marks) into the terminal and press Enter.
- Now, you should see a bunch of techincal stuff in the window. If you didn't unplug all the other stuff, there would be a lot more.
- Look for the Vendor ID and Product ID.
- Write them down.
- Head back into Windows and pull up the usbstor.inf in c:\windows.
- Find your Vendor again.
- If it's not there in the list early on, add it now.
- Scroll down and look for the Vendor between brackets(or add it).
- Add a one-line entry like this:
%USB\VID_0951&PID_1603&REV_0200.DeviceDesc%=USBSTOR_BULK,USB\VID_0951&PID_1603&REV_0200 replacing stuff in italics with info from lsusb.
- More soon...
[edit] Warnings
- As with any kind of hacking, there is a risk of ruining your OS, so if your PC ass'plodes, you brought it on yourself.
[edit] Things You'll Need
- A USB pen drive(Duh!)
- A Win98 PC
- An Internet connection
- A Linux LiveCD(e.g. SLAX http\\www.slax.org)
