How to unlock a flash card?

[Guest ms]

At the moment, in W2K, want to transfer files to a W98 computer. Tere has

been several threads here on flash cards.

 

Up to now, had no trouble (W2K) loading a flash card, unlocking it,

transferring to a W98 machine, loading and then unlocking there. In W98SE,

I used the universal W98 driver from a post by glee, it works fine.

 

Today, loaded 1.9GB on a Sony 2 GB flash card, got the message "disk full",

I said Cancel and checked contents, looks like everything is there.

 

Next I went into the Unlock sequence, usually it is maybe a 1 minute max

delay, but this time it still does not unlock in 30 minutes. Tried

rebooting, no luck.

 

I suppose this is related to the error message.

 

I searched here, don't see this issue.

 

How to unlock the flash card?

 

ms

[Guest ms]

Re: How to unlock a flash card?

 

ms <ms@invalid.com> wrote in news:5rbcs8F13olrvU1@mid.individual.net:

> At the moment, in W2K, want to transfer files to a W98 computer. Tere

> has been several threads here on flash cards.

>

> Up to now, had no trouble (W2K) loading a flash card, unlocking it,

> transferring to a W98 machine, loading and then unlocking there. In

> W98SE, I used the universal W98 driver from a post by glee, it works

> fine.

>

> Today, loaded 1.9GB on a Sony 2 GB flash card, got the message "disk

> full", I said Cancel and checked contents, looks like everything is

> there.

>

> Next I went into the Unlock sequence, usually it is maybe a 1 minute

> max delay, but this time it still does not unlock in 30 minutes. Tried

> rebooting, no luck.

>

> I suppose this is related to the error message.

>

> I searched here, don't see this issue.

>

> How to unlock the flash card?

>

> ms

 

Yesterday, it never did unlock, even after deleting partial contents,

through reboots, and a cold boot.

 

I shut down at night, so this AM was a cold boot, this time it unlocked.

 

Flash cards should not be filled near capacity, it looks like.

 

ms

[Guest ms]

Re: How to unlock a flash card?

 

ms <ms@invalid.com> wrote in news:5rdclhF12pl0qU1@mid.individual.net:

> ms <ms@invalid.com> wrote in news:5rbcs8F13olrvU1@mid.individual.net:

>

>> At the moment, in W2K, want to transfer files to a W98 computer. Tere

>> has been several threads here on flash cards.

>>

>> Up to now, had no trouble (W2K) loading a flash card, unlocking it,

>> transferring to a W98 machine, loading and then unlocking there. In

>> W98SE, I used the universal W98 driver from a post by glee, it works

>> fine.

>>

>> Today, loaded 1.9GB on a Sony 2 GB flash card, got the message "disk

>> full", I said Cancel and checked contents, looks like everything is

>> there.

>>

>> Next I went into the Unlock sequence, usually it is maybe a 1 minute

>> max delay, but this time it still does not unlock in 30 minutes. Tried

>> rebooting, no luck.

>>

>> I suppose this is related to the error message.

>>

>> I searched here, don't see this issue.

>>

>> How to unlock the flash card?

>>

>> ms

>

> Yesterday, it never did unlock, even after deleting partial contents,

> through reboots, and a cold boot.

>

> I shut down at night, so this AM was a cold boot, this time it

unlocked.

>

> Flash cards should not be filled near capacity, it looks like.

>

> ms

>

Turns out it is just the characteristics of W2K and probably XP. I used

the flash card in W98SE and it unlocks immediately.

 

ms