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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful: By This review is from: Sony Micro Vault 128 MB USB Removable Storage Media (Personal Computers) Okay, first off the device is handy to have. The package states you don't need to install drivers and different people have reported different results. I've had no problems plugging into Windows XP (Home and Pro) or Windows 2000. Windows 98 was a little mixed, second edition seemed to do okay but earlier versions didn't seem to want to play without a little additional help. Depending on your technical skills (or lack of) this might be a problem. If you run Windows 95 or NT, forget it. Linux fans running more recent distros won't have any problems.After all of that, I must add a word of caution. If you do not undock your USB drive properly, you run the risk of toasting it. Something gets modified and you forever run the risk of having any version of Windows detect it as a security device. Don't ask me how to fix it because I haven't been able to and Sony had no idea what to do. I had bought a 256 Micro Vault and had this happen after a couple months (but in that instance...Read more 12 of 13 people found the following review helpful: By "aslopes" (Adelphi, MD United States) - See all my reviews This review is from: Sony Micro Vault 128 MB USB Removable Storage Media (Personal Computers) For those of you who want to know, it is 100% compatible with Linux. It gets assigned to one of the SCSI hard-disk devices. 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful: By Topramen "Topramen" (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews This review is from: Sony Micro Vault 128 MB USB Removable Storage Media (Personal Computers) Works great with Microsoft XP! As the other reviewer testified, there are no divers to install. I have a Compaq Presario laptop, and the Sony MicroVault is truly plug n' play on it. My computer recognizes it immediately as "Drive E". I have so far used it to store pictures, word, excel & powerpoint documents, etc., and have transferred them to other laptops that have XP as their operating system, as well as my computer at work which runs on Windows NT. It's tiny, doesn't weigh a thing, and makes my zip drive near obsolete. |