I figured I couldn't call Dell since it wasn't a Dell device. Unfortunately, other people may not have my limited knowledge. Fortunately, I was intelligent enough to figure out it was a driver problem. I could not get the PNY Flash Drive to work either. The Lexar site is: - and I picked Win98 SE, USB JumpDrive 1.0.įinal thought, I think Dell should have provided drivers for Win 98 on the CD's that come with a new system, even though the new system is Win XP, the whole purpose of the USB key is to transfer data, and it's very likely that data would be transfered to and from other systems which do not operate in Win XP. As an added bonus, the Lexar provides a "wizard" type installation that works like a charm - no need to get into technicalities. Then, after reading that my Dell USB key is in fact a Lexar JumpDrive, I went to the Lexar Media site, and downloaded the drivers for Win 98, and it worked. It's a technique for synchronizing the two sets of files.I tried installing the Windows 98 drivers off the Dell site (Zip file) for the Dell USB key on my Win 98 computer without success. And, the same works in the opposite direction, going from flash drive to hard drive, in case you happen to work from the flash drive at certain times rather than the hard drive.
However, if large files are involved, you might save some time by not overwriting where there has been no change in the file since that last copy. Of course, you can elect to overwrite all files during the procedure. files of the same name are already on it), Windows will pause and ask you whether you want to overwrite the existing file on the flash drive, and it will show you the date and time both files were created so that you can decide whether to overwrite or not. When Windows sees that some or all of the files you are copying to the folder on the flash drive already exist on the flash drive (i.e. Then, to get the new and/or updated files copied over to the folder on your flash drive, you repeat the original dragging technique. Suppose you drag a folder containing numerous files from the hard drive to the flash drive, then later you add more files to that folder on your hard drive or update some of the existing files. And, of course, you can use the same technique going from the flash drive to your hard drive.