Hi Jason, If you are going to do that, then I would highly suggest you format the drive to FAT or FAT32, although I'm not sure if the latter will still work with Windows 98, although it might with SE.
Either way, there should have been a driver CD that came along with the external drive, and in that CD there should be drivers for Windows 98, 2000 and ME machines. I would suggest you install the drivers first, then plug the drive into the 98 machine, specifically in that order. You may have to reboot your system before you plug it in, but I'm sure the software you install will let you know. In any case, whether it lets you know or not, I would re-boot the system just to make sure the additions to the registry took affect properly. I would also find out if you specifically need the drive's software to back-up the 98 machine, as you may have to get more accessible software, possibly from the Jaws user's site in order to implement such a facility on a 98 machine. I'm not sure if the Windows back-up software, which can be downloaded separately, will function on the 98 machine, but I have heard some wonderful things about it's accessibility, so you may want to consider that as an alternative, if the software on the driver CD isn't accessible. In any case, you may have to resort to re-formatting the drive to FAT, if only to make it more compatible with the older computer. I would also suggest you check the documentation that came along with your drive. This should also be located on the driver CD, and hopefully, it'll be in an accessible format, such as a text file, or tagged PDF file. Let us know how it goes. Victor Co-moderator Blind Movie Buffs List Guidedogs List Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following address in order to contact the management team [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
