where can i find the new hardware wizard?
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I have a old machine running Windows NT 4.0 . And i need to connect at USB drive to it. Where can i find the correct driver for this? And is there something speciel that i should keep in mind?
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There's no "New hardware" wizard in NT4; NT4 doesn't have Plug and Play capabilities.
USB support is pretty much impossible to find for NT4. NT4 didn't support USB natively, so the hardware manufacturer had to deliver an NT4 driver to go with his product.
Whatever you try with this machine, make sure you have working backup before installing anything.
Wouldn't it be easier to attach the drive to a machine running W2k or later and access it over the network from the NT machine?
Windows NT 4.0 does not support Universal Serial Bus
http://support.microsoft.c
An open source project is here:
Woodhead's Home
http://www.geocities.com/m
Some generic USB protocol stacks, but they're mostly for hardware developers:
EdgeUSB
http://www.digi.com/produc
Jingo USBware
http://www.jungo.com/st/us
As oBdA states NT didn't support USB.
But from a previous thread at EE
http://www.experts-exchang
These links might be helpful or not.
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by: laguayoiiiPosted on 2009-08-14 at 09:08:27ID: 25099647
The best option is going to the USB Maufactor's website, the often post the drivers for older operating systems. If they dont have it, you can try using a generic driver that windows has (disk drive). Just follow go through the new hardware wizrard.