Transcend Usb Flash Windows 98 Driver
Oludare Padilla
Is there a need for a specific PCMCIA software driver for the Transcend
compact flash card, and if I used another manufacturer's compact flash
card, would I need the other manufacturer's software driver, or ....
Is there a need for a specific PCMCIA software driver for the
Transcend
compact flash card, and if I used another manufacturer's compact flash
card, would I need the other manufacturer's software driver, or ....
I haven't used any Transcend products; but...my compact flash adapter is by Microtech and I have compact flash cards by Memorex and ScanDisk. The drivers needed are part of Win98SE and will load the first time you put an adapter in your PCMCIA/PC Card slot. Don't be surprised if it adds another one if you get a new card that is a different MB in size that what you already have.
Is there a need for a specific PCMCIA software driver for the
Transcend
compact flash card, and if I used another manufacturer's compact flash
card, would I need the other manufacturer's software driver, or ....
Is there a generic software driver for PCMCIA compact flash cards?
I checked information about it's hardware, it seems that Vendor ID is 125f that should belong to ADATA, but manufacturer is displayed as "IUD3S-", Device ID is 0613 (could not find this id among ADATA devices). Found one PC with Windows 7 where this device works (but it's not my PC, I can't install ALM on it to get my license), looked in driver details tab in device manager, there are 4 files used for this device: disk.sys, dwdg.sys, DzHDD64.sys, partmgr.sys, all located in \windows\system32\drivers. Tried to copy them to my PC, no luck - device is still unrecognized. I am unable to use the license I bought because Siemens is unable to use usb sticks from normal manufacturers like Transcend etc., only some noname that can't be even googled.
To mount a USB flash drive or an SD card as a hard drive, you need a special filter driver, which allows you to modify data sent via the system stack of the current device driver. We will use a filter driver for USB flash drives by Hitachi (Hitachi Microdrive driver), which allows to change the USB device type from removable to fixed (USB-ZIP -> USB-HDD) at the OS driver level. Using this driver, you can hide from the system that the connected device is removable. As a result, the system assumes that it works with a usual hard disk, which can be split into several partitions available in the system simultaneously.
Now you only have to restart the computer and when open the Disk Managment console, verify that the flash drive is identified as a common hard disk (Type: Basic) and uses Hitachi driver.
Thanks for sharing such kind of good information but I met a trouble. Does it also can workable for windows 8.1 system 32-bit? Because no matter what I did, the windows 8.1 always got the problem when I want to intall the new driver.
also will this affect all preciously removable devices connected to my computer I.e will all flash drives plugged into my pc show up as local not removable if i delete all 5 windows drivers and replace with the new one?
Please note that the USB flash drive in question will only appear as hard disk on the computer you installed the Hitachi driver on. On all other computers, it will still appear as removable drive. Thus, the entire exercise becomes questionable.
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Note: When I rebooted the first time, windows would not load, this was due to the driver being unsigned. When booting hit F8 to enter the bootloader, and choose to disable driver signing. Alternatively you can disable driver signing by doing the following:
I do NOT like the fact that with the Hitachi driver I need to configure it for a specific device by device ID. Is there a way to REPLACE the Windows USB flash drive driver entirely with a 3rd party driver that reports ALL USB flash drives that may ever be plugged into the system in the future as fixed-drives (instead of removable)? I ask this, because I see NO ADVANTAGE to having a drive be handled by Windows as removable. I see a MAJOR advantage though in tricking Windows into seeing any USB flash drives as if they were fixed-drives (normal internal harddrives). The reason for this is that ONLY fixed-drives are capable of having more than one partition on them (sadly a limitation of Windows, but a limitation that could be worked around if I could trick Windows into seeing all external USB flash drives as being fixed-drives instead of removable).
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