How to force Win 98 to detect my MP3 player?

CouchPotato · 31-07-2006, 10:30 PM

Hi all,
I have an S1 MP3 player. My hard disk had bad sectors and so I don't use my C drive nowadays. Win 98 is installed on D and I use E and F for installing programs and for entertainment respectively. Now I tried installing the driver for the mp3 player in D as well as E drives. But windows is not detecting my player. I reinstalled the driver, restarted the PC, nothing seems to work. Does anybody have any idea on how to solve this problem? My digital camera and webcam gets detected though(their programs are installed on E drive only).

It is working on 2 of my friends' PCs. Is the missing "C" drive the problem?

CouchPotato · 05-08-2006, 07:17 PM

Nobody got any idea?

Vishal Gupta · 05-08-2006, 09:40 PM

Try this:

1.) First uninstall the drivers if they r shown in Device manager or add/remove programs list.
2.) Now run the setup again but don't attach ur MP3 player.
3.) Now reboot the pc and then attach ur MP3 player.

Now it should detect the MP3 player.

Ultimate Z Fighter · 05-08-2006, 09:46 PM

Upgrade to xP

CouchPotato · 08-08-2006, 10:07 PM

Vishal, I love you man! Thank you for your suggestion. I tried your suggestion, it didn't workout as expected and then you know what I did? I tried Add/Remove Hardware. And then manually installed the driver. Maybe this is how it should have been done, but I didn't have any manual...

Here is what I did :
I had a CD which had an exe to install MP3 Player Utilities. I thought that if I installed the software, the driver would be installed automatically. So restarted the computer. Nothing hapened. Then I used Add/Remove Hardware and specified the driver file manually and that was where I had gone wrong.

Now, am so happy man!!!

Hey Fighter, I have an old system with 128MB RAM(Pentium III 800MHz) and am not going to upgrade my PC in near future till my son breaks it in to pieces

And then I'll buy a brand new one with the latest config

Thanks buddies for your inputs.