How to unlock a flash card?

[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

 

[ms]

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

 

[ms]

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