I've got NT 4.0 at work and I was woundering if anyone knows how to make computer recognize and read the existing USB ports on the motherboard? I'm trying to get it to recognize the external harddrive when I reboot (NT doesn't have plug-n-play ), but it doesn't work.

Thanks.

 

NT does not and will not support USB.

Thank you come again.

 

I knew that , but then my hope was born again, after I found one site where they said that there are some drivers that make NT recognize it.

 

apparently they were wrong no?

 

There is a very limited pnp.inf file on the Windows NT CD (forgot exact name of inf). It's very limited. It does help picking up like SB sound cards and such.

 

Funny they still use the 'NT' name... "New Technology"... isn't that NEW anymore :chuckles:

 

Try the manufactures website for the external HD. I used to work tech support at Iomega and we'd get NT calles about USB based zip drives sometimes and for some dumb reason we did support NT on a few drives so we had to support it (and had drivers that if they worked, and usually didn't, they became the only USB device that will ever work on that machine). Most likely there won't be anything listed, but it's worth a shot.

 

Thanks, everyone. Manufacture just killed my last hope. But I found out that another computer in the building has XP on it, so thanks to the Network, I can use that computer once a day to transfer all the files to my Ext HD.

Thanks again.
Paul

 

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Microsoft doesn't support it, but it can be done.