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| Thread ID: 42496 | 2004-02-12 21:54:00 | USB support on NT4 | Mzee (158) | Press F1 |
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| 214937 | 2004-02-12 21:54:00 | I am having great success with NT4 Service Pack 6 with USB support. The only problem is that there are no drivers for USB support with the appliances ( Camera & Scanner). Any suggestions (polite ones) would be wellcome:) On the subject of NT4 and large drives, make FAT Active Primary for the system, Logical FAT for Ghost Images etc, the rest NTFS for Data and programmes. DOS will be able to read the first two partitions only. |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 214938 | 2004-02-12 22:15:00 | Sysinternals make a dos NTFS read only driver- www.sysinternals.com What usb driver did you install out of curiousity? |
mark.p (383) | ||
| 214939 | 2004-02-13 10:50:00 | The USB driver is "R62200.EXE" produced by Dell computers. There is a link to it somewhere on this F1 site. Installs well and places an Icon on the task bar. Only problem is that neither my Mustek scanner or Aiptek Camera has software for NT4. How would you hack an XP driver to be acceptable to NT? |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 214940 | 2004-02-13 19:42:00 | Sorry I'm not a hacker. Stumbled on this though-www.jungo.com Have you got any other usb devices up and running with it? |
mark.p (383) | ||
| 214941 | 2004-02-13 20:14:00 | win 2k drivers may work | beama (111) | ||
| 214942 | 2004-02-14 02:27:00 | have a look at Google Groups, and search on "NT4 USB". You'll find some discussions. It doersn't appear to be easy. :D One idea I spotted in there is that it is essential to have the device plugged in and "on" when NT4 starts up, otherwise it'll never find the device. Of course NT4 was not designed to be plug and pray, it was meant to be secure, which makes something like USB not a very natural bus to hang onto it. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 214943 | 2004-02-15 07:41:00 | I had a look at "www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfsdos.shtml" and found a file called "Fat32 for Windows NT4.V1.01" Works a treat. You keep the Active Primary in FAT, and can Format the rest as FAT32. Installs without any hassles & is fully automatic. Great for dual booting. The USB has found the Hub but I need drivers for the Scanner & Camera. I have tried 2K & XP drivers but they refuse to install. The DOS emulator is very good, runs my Dos programs, no trouble. I have been trying all sorts of drivers etc & not once had a blue screen or crash. (I have a Ghost copy just incase!) |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 214944 | 2004-02-15 08:53:00 | May I ask what the sytem specs are? I've been contemplating going the same thing with a Toshiba lab top ;) . Those sysinternal programmers are great ah? |
mark.p (383) | ||
| 214945 | 2004-02-16 11:41:00 | My computer specs are:- CPU Celeron 4 1700mhz. Motherboard ECS L4S5A(DX+) Chipset SIS650 Ram DDR 256megs Graphics built in SIS315 Audio built in SIS7012 Lan Ethernet SIS900 I have also had excellent results with 2 old computers, one Cyrix 333mhz and the other ? 150mhz. (No USB fitted) |
Mzee (158) | ||
| 214946 | 2004-02-16 11:55:00 | Incase you are wondering if I have dual booting with the NT4. Not at the moment. I have a Maxtor 40gig drive in a tray for playing with. I just fit this in place of my "work" drive, which runs XP Pro dual booted with 98se, which I need for a spares program & camera driver which XP will not support. I also find the Dos part of 98 usefull for Ghost, Partition Magic etc. "Boot Magic" is used. |
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